Always borrow from a pessimist – they never expect to get it back! Optimism and resilience are key leadership characteristics. I read somewhere that you won’t see any statues erected to honour pessimists because, as Helen Keller said, “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened [...]
Discerning your call
My hero-in-the-faith, John Richardson, was called to ministry in 1959 at the age of 47. This wasn’t quite a mid-life career change since today he is a very healthy 97 year-old, but it was close to mid-life. (CCCC members will remember John as the banquet speaker at the 2007 conference.) John was a senior manager at a textile company and could see [...]
Dreams and Discernment
I had a dream the other night about a cowboy who was no good at rounding up cattle, so he became a fisherman. I woke up chuckling about a wrangler becoming an angler! Aside from proving that I do have a sense of humour when I’m unconscious (though I hope I can be funny when conscious too), [...]
A Team of Rivals
It’s not often I buy a book at Shoppers Drug Mart (I think I really mean never), but the title of this book caught my eye, the topic (a bio of Abraham Lincoln) was already on my list of ‘someday’ reading, and at 916 pages I was sure the author had done a thorough job! And now that [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
