trust

Last night, I walk in my kids bedroom just as they are about to put their younger cousin in a drawer underneath their bunk bed and shut it. There was a high risk of smashed fingers, panic and pain. So I broke that up and shared what could have happened. My 5 yr old little Kali said, "If daddy said to do it, I would trust him, but no one else." I walked out of there feeling great that my little girl would trust me, even though she was unsure.
That's how I want to be with my Heavenly Father. I want to trust, even when I am unsure.

trust

A while back one of my boys was caught in a lie and I took the moment to teach a lesson. I took a pile of building blocks and said that every time you tell the truth, you build your tower a little higher. I told them how it takes a long time to build your tower of trust, but day after day, you build it it higher and higher. BUT, it only takes 1 lie, and .........then I knocked down the tower! Both my boys were looking on with big eyes. I then said, now, guess where you have to start to REbuild your tower....at the bottom. It takes a long time to build up trust and only 1 lie to knock it all down

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Today, Gary and I were in a meeting with an architect and a spokesperson from the builder of our soon to be building. While going through the plans, Gary and I hit a point on design that neither of us would back down from. We continued arguing back and forth until it got a little uncomfortable for the other guys. Afterward, I wondered what their thoughts were. The cool thing is this, Gary and I can completely disagree on something and it never turns personal. The reason is because of trust. If our team doesn't feel the right to voice their opinions if they are different from mine, what good is that. Our heart is to create a culture of trust where we can wrestle and disagree with each other to find the best solution for C3. Do you have that kind of trust with those you work with?

- Afterward, we thought that would have been cool for me to have challenged Gary to an "Indian Leg Wrestling Match" right there on the spot, to decide what was done. That would have been awesome!