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First, a little bit of a background info. I started this blog more than a year ago, and it enjoyed the first few months of its existence over at Blogger. That site is still up and enjoys some traffic via search engines. By the way, do you know how to completely change all the search engine results to the corresponding pages on this site instead on the blogger site?

Anyway, since my first attempt at building the site over at Blogger, I had looked enviously at other sites that were hosted and that used more sophisticated software such as MT or Wordpress. So, one day, after some research I ventured over to set up my own domain, and adopted Wordpress to build this site. It was a decision that was fraught with much frustration and also not a little joy!

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The other day we have a grave issue at work that needed resolution. It was going to involve a critical meeting, at which my boss, his boss (our company’s CEO) and myself would meet with representatives from this other firm. We were going to attempt to resolve a matter that has significant consequences between our two firms. This matter could potentially negatively impact our division (at least) if not the entire company, and sour the relationships not only between the two firms but the repercussions might even impact other relationships and the overall performance of our division and company.

To say that it is a critically significant meeting is to understate it. Just before we left for the meeting, my boss mentioned to me that he prayed for a miracle to happen. I said to him that I prayed too, but did not ask for a miracle, only for wisdom on behalf of all three of us. Now that I think about it, that in itself might be a miracle. I mean for me, but I digress…

Anyway, I remember that I was in a prayerful mode when the meeting began, and our company CEO started to address the CEO and the team from the other company. I asked again for the Spirit of all wisdom to come take control over the meeting and allow us all to see the way out of the impasse. I asked God’s Spirit to help us find a third way that benefits all parties so that we could all synergistically resolve the issue and enjoy successful collaboration once again.

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