When Work Feels Worthwhile

You work so hard for so long and sometimes you just don't know what God is doing on the other end. This week was NOT like that.

For the past week, Paul McConnell has been visiting Rwanda from Australia. He is the president of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce in Australia. He is an incredible business success, but according to his testimony, he has failed as many times as he has succeeded, just on a smaller scale.

He has truly encouraged the entrepreneurs in the cohort.

Thursday he finished facilitating the night with a little bit of time left and opened up the floor for comments and suggestions, after all, this was his first time facilitating solo. The Rwandan people are very polite and will hardly ever tell you if you’re not doing something well.  Regardless, after some customary niceties, Jacques raised his hand.

I’ll do my best to recount exactly what he said because it was so powerful.

“Thank you for changing our mind about Christians. Everyone says that if you do business, you are on the road to hell, but you are a Christian and you do business. You can walk the road to heaven too. You have told us that it’s about how we do business. Thank you.”

That’s when you can look at your work and say “Thank God for days like today.”