ENCOURAGE - EQUIP - EMPOWER
IT STARTS HERE.
“The needs of the one, outweigh those of the ninety-nine”
Murphy “Murph” Shepherd is a priest who lives in isolation in a church on the coast of Florida near Jacksonville. He has planned to board his boat Gone Fiction to spread the ashes of his recently deceased mentor and best friend. However, Murph meets a daughter and mother caught up in the horrifying reality of human trafficking who quickly derail his plans.
This week I was called to task about an admittedly thoughtless comment I made about a year ago. It was not difficult for me to see how insensitive my comment was. I completely owned my offensive words and made no excuses. The person rejected my apology and chose to hold onto the hurt. Of course, I was disappointed by their response and wanted to beat myself up over it -- after all, I had been wrong!
I was recently involved in a community service project that involved clearing an overgrown part of a backyard. It looked like an impossible task, but I gamely put on my gloves and went to work. As I got started I realized how easy it was to pull off the top of the weeds. And aesthetically that looked pretty nice. You couldn’t really tell that the root was still there. It was a little bumpy, but overall, it would have been easy to dust the dirt off my hands and say, “Good enough.”
