losing is finding...

I couldn't get rid of my instinct to throw away all the junk that I don't need anymore at my place.  When I moved into a warehouse/apartment, my friends called me a rat pack after helping me load/unload and move in.  So I did stay up until 2 AM every day since last Monday to clean all the old stuff out of my drawers.  I realized that I would be busier this month and next month because of my best childhood friend's wedding season and Mardi Gras events!  So I was determined to dig deeper into my drawers to throw all the unnecessary stuff and keep a VERY FEW things that I wanted to keep, so I could enjoy the next two months without being under pressure to "un-clutter" my place.  At that moment, I happened to find an old sheet from one of my numerous LEAD (Presidential Scholar) meetings during my college years, and I thought reading/mediating on it was an excellent way to start 2009, or 200-MINE!  Read the followings-

"Paradoxes of Leading"

Which ones typify the lessons that you have learned about yourself this past year?

~The last shall be first

~You have to know how to follow to lead

~Serving is leading

~Losing is finding

~Power is made full and complete in weakness (I can boast in my weaknesses)

~Joy in Sorrow

~Meek inherit the earth

~Turn the other cheek

~Go 2 miles instead

~Love your enemy

~The good I want to do, I don't (and vice versa)

"Talking and Walking"

If you can talk, you can sing,

If you can walk, you can dance. 

-African Proverb

Is this proverb an invitation or an admonishment for you?

"How do you walk?"

If one is supposed to walk with ones eyes open, head up, intentionally, without looking down, how would characterize the way you have walked this past year?  (Dragging your feet?  Face down?  Looking over your shoulders?  Straining to see ahead?  Slowly?  Rapidly?  Awkwardly?  Meandering?  With a purpose?  Etc...)