Rashional Thoughts: Embracing your areas of responsibility with joy, a servant’s heart and a teachable spirit makes those around you better

Rashional Thoughts

Rashional Thoughts: Embracing your areas of responsibility with joy, a servant’s heart and a teachable spirit makes those around you better

Reflecting on the past nine months of transition here at The Alabama Baptist and TAB Media, I’m realizing how many updates have taken place. We are enjoying keeping you informed on what we are doing and can’t wait to share more updates soon.

As you can imagine, change brings with it all kinds of emotions. Our team members have survived extremely well in all that has been spinning around them. I’m proud of the heart and strength they are demonstrating.

Everyone is working hard to be a positive help in the transition but even in the best of circumstances change can be wearing.

We’ve tried to take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about each other as well as ourselves while moving the ministry forward. It’s helping to sharpen us as a team and definitely building a bond we know will pay dividends for you in the future. 

You might relate to some of what we’ve learned about each other.

Responding to change

Some on the team are wanting to run faster, change more quickly and get to where we are going sooner.

Others prefer we slow down and perfect the existing systems and set ups before starting anything new.

And a solid core are good with the pace and are managing to roll with the constant tweaks despite not always knowing what will look different tomorrow.

So far, no one has refused to make the needed adjustments — and for that I’m grateful. 

I’m learning more and more each day about how to work with individual personalities and how to communicate in a style that makes sense to each person. 

We are all learning how to meet in the middle to find common ground that allows all of us to flourish and grow rather than each person trying to force the situation to match where he or she is most comfortable.

It makes my heart sing to figure out each individual and work to customize everyone’s environment, training, resourcing, etc., to set them up for success in the position for which they have accepted responsibility.

And when they embrace their role with joy, a servant’s heart and a teachable spirit, it makes our collective team’s heart sing.