NEW YORK, NY – January 19, 2010 – I’ve been hugely touched and blessed by the volume of encouragement and support that I’ve gotten on this late-in-the-day foray into Big City media.
A few weeks ago, back in Nashville, pastor Steve Fry said something that connected with me in a very deep place: “When you encourage other people¸ you give them power. But you lose your leverage to control them.”
That explains why some people cannot explain technology in an understandable manner. They don’t WANT you to know what they know! As a teenager, I was guilty of that. I knew a lot about photography. But when adults would ask me something, I would overwhelm them with such confusing data that they learned nothing.
Jerky kid!
But I redeemed myself. When I was in TV news in Nashville, I was the interns’ best friend. If they really wanted to know what I knew, I’d gladly share everything with them, even let them ask an interview question, give input when I was writing.
The scripture “That which ye sow, ye also shall reap” is certainly bearing fruit for me now. I’ve got friends in media around the world who are responding to my requests for names or introductions at big media here in New York.
Most encouraging. Exactly the sort of thing I would do.
There was one exception, a former New York Times reporter from my home town who bathed her remarks in discouragement. “They’re laying people off. Big media is changing.”
Ah, gloom! Doom! Discouragement!
That kind of stuff is like a dirty picture on a billboard: you can linger over it or let it go and move on. I choose the latter. I’ve always operated on the assumption that I’d get the job, get the nice apartment, get the pretty girl.
I did all three! If you never saw Lois in her 30s, you know what I mean. She was drop-dead gorgeous!
I don’t see that string of blessing changing now.
Why should it?
Copyright 2010 James C. Lewis
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