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Ok, I\u2019m not a jerk.\u00a0 Or at least I don\u2019t think I am.\u00a0\u00a0 But I am absolutely sure that there is a little jerk that lives somewhere inside of me because it so easily comes out.\u00a0 I need to put that thing on a leash.\u00a0 Let me tell you why.<\/p>\n
I walked into a meeting with a good friend the other day: a young pastor who has been doing great things and had asked me to mentor and walk alongside him.\u00a0 On the table set a book whose title I knew and whose author I knew all too well.\u00a0 He looked at me with a smile, pointed to the book, and said, \u201cHave you seen this book?\u201d\u00a0 And my little inner jerk took over from there and without a pause said, \u201cYeah I know this book and I know the jerk who wrote it.\u00a0 I know exactly what kind of person he is and I have no respect for him or the book.\u201d\u00a0 I could see the smile and the air go out of my buddy.<\/p>\n
I walked on in and got my coffee and came back out and the book was gone.\u00a0 As we continued our conversation about our designated agenda I asked, \u201cWhat are you going to do with the book?\u201d\u00a0 And he said, \u201cTake it back.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cNo, no, don\u2019t do that.\u00a0 You may love it. Don\u2019t let my contrariness… and I explained why I held the opinion that I do, and did, and probably will for awhile.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He explained that he had bought the book for me and his dilemma was that he signed it.\u00a0 Well, guess how tall I felt.\u00a0 Pretty small.<\/p>\n
I finally convinced him to give me the book, apologized for my outburst, for letting my little jerk off it\u2019s leash, and I learned a valuable lesson.\u00a0 Each one of us can wound someone who, in the effort to honor us and love us feels like they have failed.\u00a0 When someone tries to do something nice for you, no matter what it is, whether you want the gift or you think it has any value, make it a big deal.<\/strong> Put your little jerk on a leash and make your friend feel appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, I\u2019m not a jerk.\u00a0 Or at least I don\u2019t think I am.\u00a0\u00a0 But I am absolutely sure that there is a little jerk that lives somewhere inside of me because it so easily comes out.\u00a0 I need to put that thing on a leash.\u00a0 Let me tell you why. I walked into a meeting … Continue reading “Putting The Jerk on a Leash”<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"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=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}