{"id":1193,"date":"2009-12-27T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"1072057608"},"modified":"2009-12-27T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T21:20:30","slug":"this-weekend-the-gathering-everyone-limps-a-few-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/this-weekend-the-gathering-everyone-limps-a-few-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend @ The Gathering: Everyone Limps; A Few Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today we finished our current series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate,\u201d with the message entitled, \u201cEveryone Limps. A Few Dance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

When people think about you, they are going to think about one of two things:<\/p>\n

1.The inspiration you were<\/strong>; how you were able to take the hand you were dealt and turn it into something beautiful.<\/p>\n

2. Or a cautionary tale<\/strong>; someone who wasted their potential and the life they could\u2019ve had, the contribution they could\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n

Which one of these they choose is up to you.<\/p>\n

There are five different kinds of people <\/strong><\/em>we meet on our journey to heaven.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The arrogant and the proud.<\/strong> You\u2019ve met those.\u00a0 These are the people for whom nothing is too much.\u00a0 They think the world revolves around them.<\/li>\n
  2. The advantaged and the entitled.<\/strong> Those who have been given great advantages in life and who feel entitled to more.<\/li>\n
  3. The bruised and the bullied.<\/strong> Thos are the people on the sidelines; not in the game because of injuries.\u00a0 And when you hear their story, you do indeed feel sorry for them.<\/li>\n
  4. The betrayed and the bitter.<\/strong> These are the people who were on the way to greatness, but someone tripped them up: a divorce, slander, gossip; someone somewhere that they trusted who should\u2019ve been there for them wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 Or worse than that, told outright lies that destroyed their careers and what they think of their future.\u00a0 And they\u2019re mad about it.\u00a0 They\u2019re mad at God and everyone and they want you to know it.<\/li>\n
  5. The broken and the blessed.<\/strong> These are the people who are like the others.\u00a0 They have enough excuses that they don\u2019t make them.\u00a0 They\u2019ve lost more than enough to sit on the sidelines and excuse themselves from playing, but that\u2019s not how they live life.\u00a0 They take the hand they\u2019ve been dealt and they turn it into a blessing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Many years ago at my brother\u2019s funeral, a friend gave me a card.\u00a0 On the front of it was a saying so profound I still have it to this day, framed and in my office.\u00a0 It goes like this, \u201cThose who hear not the music think the dancers mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

    In life there are always two things going on: the thing you see and think you know, and the thing you don\u2019t see and think you can never know.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the difference between words and music.\u00a0 Words are easy to read, and it\u2019s an intellectual endeavor.\u00a0 But add music, and everything changes.\u00a0 It now becomes an endeavor of the spirit and the soul.<\/p>\n

    As we face a brand new decade, I\u2019m making a decision.\u00a0 And that decision is:<\/p>\n

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    1. I will talk less and listen more<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    2. I will fear less and live more<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to take out of my vocabulary this phrase: \u201cI\u2019m afraid.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to be afraid.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to live in faith.<\/li>\n
    3. I will consume less and create more<\/strong>, realizing that everything that comes to me doesn\u2019t come to me to be consumed on me.\u00a0 It will be used to create something; maybe a company, a business, a service, a book, a song, a movie to create intelligence, beauty.<\/li>\n
    4. I will complain less and thank more. <\/strong>Instead of thinking about those I need to thank, I\u2019m going to thank them for thinking of me.<\/li>\n
    5. I will worry less and wait more.
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    6. I will tolerate less of my own childishness and ask more from God that proves I am a man.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. I will expect less for me and expect more from me.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As we face the beginning of a new year, you can either be bitter or better.\u00a0 You can face it with joy over the good things to come, or you can be anchored in the past by your bitterness and unforgiveness.\u00a0 As for me and my house, we are looking forward to this new decade with the greatest faith and the greatest joy we\u2019ve ever known.\u00a0 I invite you to join us. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Today we finished our current series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate,\u201d with the message entitled, \u201cEveryone Limps. A Few Dance.\u201d When people think about you, they are going to think about one of two things: 1.The inspiration you were; how you were able to take the hand you were dealt and turn it into something beautiful. … Continue reading “This Weekend @ The Gathering: Everyone Limps; A Few Dance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}