May we take a moment to remember and pray Paul’s prayer, as written in Ephesians 3:16-21: May each of us take the time to see the world from a new perspective and allow God to fill us and use for God’s purpose. In this season of Easter, and in the spirit of God’s immeasurable ability and imagination. To re-write the rules people make, to re-order our society and our way of thinking. The promise is that God is and will continue to do that. God can rewrite the rules, and God did that.Įach year, Easter offers me a new perspective and a reminder that God can do more than I have ever possibly imagined. In the resurrection, God demonstrates for us that what we knew-that death was the end-is not true. God is continuing to interact with us and point out what is beyond the end of the alphabet. The good news is that God is like our narrator in the Dr. The Easter resurrection miracle is a chance to see the world anew. God does that in the Easter resurrection. If I am lucky, someone will come along to offer me a new perspective or alternative. There are times in life I find myself thinking I have seen it all, or I know it all about something. If I am honest with myself, I am more often like Cornelius than the narrator. There are so many new and wonderful things that our narrator sees and can introduce to us. The narrator's alphabet begins where the standard one ends. He goes on to describe all the additional letters he needs to spell about all the unique things he sees. The narrator announces that most people stop at Z, but not he. Because Z is as far as the alphabet goes."īut Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o’Dell is in for a shock when our narrator picks up the chalk to draw one more letter. Seuss wrote this beautiful book called "On Beyond Zebra!" It starts with Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell announcing that he has learned all the letters of the alphabet and thus he states, "So now I know everything anyone knows from beginning to end. Oh, the book? Why, it’s On Beyond Zebra by Theodor Geisel. So I named my business after this magic story. I never forgot that book because my life turned out to be all about going beyond the known, to show what can be. I found the Yuzz and the Thnad, a Quan and a Floob, all important to understanding the value of breaking barriers to excel. Enticing creatures and the radical ideas they stood for popped out of the printed words. I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends, my alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”Īs the pages turned, a marvelous journey unfolded, one that took me into discoveries of new letters beyond Z. He went on to say, “In the places I go there are things that I see that I could never spell if I stopped with the Z. While most people stop the alphabet at Z, his friend said, “Oh no, not me!” The first few pages told of Conrad Cornelius o’Donald o’Dell (sic), a little boy who was learning how to spell. I was around seven years old and had found a book to read. What was I really about? How would one characterize the nature of the work I do? I let myself drift, and saw a scene from when I was quite young. Then I began to think in a meditative reverie. I had to get advertising material printed up, but couldn’t proceed without knowing what I was going to call the business. While they thought their ideas and suggestions were terrific, I didn’t. This is the story Back in the day when I left the corporate world to open my own consulting company, I needed a business name, and I couldn’t come up with anything, (well anything good), and asked friends and relatives for help.
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