Hi Reader,
Ready for some good news today? There's no bad news. Only news.
That's something Rich Birch told me years ago when we were launching Connexus Church together. It was an aside, but it's stuck with me ever since.
Rich served as our Executive Pastor for a few years, and I imagine like most Lead Pastors I always wanted to hear the bad news first and then have him give me any good news when he was updating me.
One day, he looked at me and said: "There's no bad news. Only news."
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There's no bad news. Only news.
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I've never forgotten that.
News is just news. And if you take the stigma out of it, it becomes easier to deal with. Besides, few things are ever as bad as they initially seem.
Here's to a Monday where there's no bad news, only news.
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P.S. I still like getting good news, and insist on calling it that. Sometimes you just need to take the win.
