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When God Winks – Love

March 29, 2011 — 2 Comments

What you see here is what greeted Shari on the afternoon I proposed. Most people would say three weeks is just too short of period of time to plan a wedding. A lot of life was crammed into those 21 incredible days, plus we had so much affirmation in the God Winks which paved the way to March 19, 2011, their was no denying that Saturday would be the day when Shari and I became husband and wife.

Regardless of the size, weddings require planning, coordination, and organization in order to insure the day is filled with memories. Time usually is the best friend a bride and groom have to guaranty those memories are good memories. Our wedding and the variables that went with it…schedules, location, catering, musician, rings, etc…each obstacles in their own right at some point, all somehow fell in place as the day approached. And those who know us and our story, saw first hand all the God Winks in those 21 days, even my car being broken into two days before the ceremony.

Our God Wink Story

Shari and I met in 2008 while we attended different locations (campuses) of North Point Church. I was a member of and served at the Buckhead Church campus, and Shari was a member of and served at the Alpharetta Church campus some 15 miles away. As much as I would have liked to participate in Fusion (our singles program) at my home campus, Buckhead, making two trips downtown on a Sunday just didn’t make much sense. Fortunately for me I had the option to join the Alpharetta group and in our eyes that was where the God Winks began for us. And despite meeting then, both of us were in different places and that was all it was meeting and going our separate ways for the next two years.

Random, Fate, or another God Wink

In the spring of 2010 we both signed up for Fusion again, and yes for me once again Alpharetta…not Buckhead. Odds were about the same 400+ singles randomly assigned to 7-8 different host homes, yet we find ourselves not only placed in the same host home, but also in the same small group within that home. Coincidence, chance…destiny…we know it to be one big defining God Wink!

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4 Steps To Finding the God Winks in Your Career

March 12, 2011 — Leave a comment
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I mentioned in my last post “Where are the God Winks” that I would highlight some of the God Winks from my life and I thought career would be a great place to start because it incorporates networking and how God can connect all those dots.

A God Wink is … something taken as evidence that a higher power is at work; a coincidence. 

I have been in the auto industry since college; actually I started selling Ford’s as a way to earn some extra spending money while at the University of Georgia. I did rather well working weekends and a few nights here and there which gave me the opportunity to create my own job description as the UGA on-campus College Graduate Plan coordinator. No one exactly knew what I did, but the title helped me negotiate the need to have an “on-campus” demonstrator available to show to potential buyers….a brand new Mustang GT. Not a bad thing for a 21 year old college senior to have in Athens and actually a pretty cool perk.

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Where are the God Winks?

March 9, 2011 — 1 Comment

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I think most of us were taught to view life through a lens where [ cause = effect ] or in other words, your efforts usually lead to your rewards. 

Think back to school…how hard you studied was reflected in the grade you received.

Fast forward to when you’re out of school, work hard, contribute to the overall company mission, give a 110%…you make a decent living, buy a nice house, and add something to your 401k each month.

Sure the journey can be easier when blessed with gifts and talents, but even blessings bear the weight of stewardship which requires making sound choices in our use of those talents and gifts. 

If not careful our education and the culture we become a part of leads us to believe we are self-made, which if unchecked, feeds our pride and inflates our egos in such a way we begin to believe we had no Spiritual help along the way. At some point in life there comes a time when we are forced to acknowledge those circumstances and the timing that was out of our control. Some say timing is a by-product of trust, and others believe fate is the result of faith.  Life at its simpliest level comes down to a choice about what we believe and Who we believe in. 

A God Wink is …an event or experience, often identified as coincidence, so astonishing that it could only have come from God…answered prayer.

I have a hard time seeing what God is doing in my life because I’m so caught up in doing life, and as a result I miss a lot of what should be evident. But having people in my life who know me and know God in their own personal way are quick to share with me what I fail to see. Another huge factor was when my Pastor at Buckhead Church shared his thoughts on what he called “connecting the dots”, something when done with the help of those friends illustrates the picture God is painting in my life. The first thing you must do is pause, my One Word for 2011,  at specific points of time each year to review where you’ve been and where you’re going. Basically for me it comes down to a simple question, am I in sync with God in the 5 F’s of my life, Faith-Family-Friends-Finances-Fitness? Sometimes the picture is crystal clear and I can see exactly where I’m going, and at other times only part of the picture is clear and that’s where your friends come in as God uses them to highlight some of the dots.

For example, this snapshot in time Family, Friends, and Finances are as clear as any other time in my life, but test results are painting a cloudy, obscure picture in the Fitness category…which causes me to pause and remember I’m not alone and my Heavenly Father wants me to Trust Him period and to place my Faith in Him and take comfort in the promise He is with me and Shari.

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When God Winks

March 3, 2011 — 1 Comment

Most Fridays I feature a website, blog, or a book that for me has become a favorite. It maybe a favorite resource, a source of inspiration, or just some distraction I frequent. Give the Friday Favorite a look, read, or listen, and please feel free to comment about mine and share a favorite or two of your own in the comment section. Who knows maybe we will feature one of yours as a future Friday Favorite.

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How the book When God Winks by SQuire Rushnell came into my life was a God Wink itself now that I look back. 

While in a nursing home battling a Sepsis blood infection, I was left with no other choice but to try an sell my dream home.  The uncertainty of my health and certain closing of my business forced me to put my home on the market in 2007 only a few months ahead of the real estate market starting to tank. Fortunately for me God’s timing prevailed and I had a contract in four days and I closed in five weeks with a couple who had already sold their home. 

With no home to go back to I moved into my parent’s home while waiting to get strong enough for surgery. Barely able to walk, surrounded by books, with time on my hands, ”When God Winks” literally fell into my lap (or to be exact) dropped at my feet as I reached for another book. If the title When God Winks didn’t have my attention, the caption on the cover, “how the power of coincidence guides your life”, certainly did.

God wink: something taken as evidence that a higher power is at work; a coincidence.

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