Pain is and has always been a big part of every person's life, or at lease should be I am of no\ exception, to many, it is the pain associated with learning good habits and setting oneself up for success in life, but unfortunately, for others, it is the pain of regret associated with lost opportunities and wishes of what should have been. In my space of work, I believe my call is to help young people navigate these two extremes. My goal, vision calling, and redemptive opportunity lie in what I have crafted as "making less difficult for others". This is because hurting people hurt others. So, coming to Praxis from the comfort of my own home and seeing my children interrupt me from time to time during the course, I saw this as an opportunity to take stalk and redefine my priorities. I come from a nonprofit background, from a space of leadership where I influence others. My opportunity lies in dedicating myself to the service of the Lord in this space of need and working wit
--> We speak of this world’s leadership greats like; Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohamed Anwar el Sadat, Abraham Lincoln, Billy Graham and many others as super heroes – out of this world. We write with profound comfort of their illustrious careers and influence as though they are of some kind of super humans, as if they were immune to earthly pressures ostensibly pegging the rest of us down. While for them, men and women of all creed and color are bound to their influence of kindness, forgiveness, vision, intellect, oratory skills, passion and compassion, little do we think and talk about their character as the key ingredient to their every growing influence. Indeed, the one thing they all have in common is really their character. Mahatma Gandhi for instance spent years being tested and built as a young lawyer through his personal choices of non-violence. Nelson Mandela was in jail for years working on forgiveness at a very personal level. Mother T