I just spoke at a huge corporate event. Not necessarily huge in numbers, maybe 85 people or so, small in comparison to most of my audiences these days, but huge in significance.
This audience was comprised of the spouses, mostly women, of the upper tier leadership of Procter and Gamble, one of the largest companies in the world. They are amazing people from around the world, all different nationalities. I was to emcee, humor, teach, and entertain them as their keynote speaker. This is an audience to impress if there ever was one said my brain. My heart said something different.
Instead of trying to impress, I dared to encourage. My middle son Cooper said to me one day while preparing "Mom, these are just people like you, moms and dads, doing their best. Just people." What a genius I thought.. a chip off the old maternal block...
So that's how I approached it. I talked about life, humor, parenting, and sacrifice. I taught them, embraced them, and encouraged them just like I try to do with every audience I have the priviledge of speaking to. And you know what? They left encouraged, and refreshed, in need of both just like you, and just like me. It wasn't a gamble after all.
2 comments:
Your title is so clever. And you are so right, we all are just people created with a special place for God. That only He can fill. And we all put our pants on one leg at a time. Your son is so smart!
She shoots - she scores!
Very glad it went well.
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