Get Started Building

I've been sharing with the youth I work with about "building" all month long.

Even if you're not in the construction business, there are a lot of applications to the principal of building. If you want to build a reputation, a relationship, a skill, a ladder to a goal, etc. learning the process of building can be valuable.

One of the main obstacles to building something significant in our lives is that we don't even get started! Why? Because most things suck when they begin. If you just started playing an instrument, or dribbling a basketball, or running a business -- ah you probably are pretty terrible (despite what your mom says).

People may tease you, doubt you, and hate on you which is not motivating to start. But you have to start.

A business mentor once taught me, "To be great you first have to be good. To be good you first have to be bad. To be bad you first have to get started."

Don't look down on small beginnings (Zech 4:10a)

Let's go people.

Shallow Soil (ASON's 1st Blog Ever!)

What up world wide web,

It has taken awhile for Riff-Raff and Pastor Noah and friends and fans to get me to start doing this but here we go. I'm blogging.

What's on my mind today? Things take time.

At the beginning of this year I returned to rapping after two years away. Not surprisingly, I got some important performances on the calendar, and quickly! 1st Baptist Church of Glenarden (10,000 members), a concert at the Verizon Center after the Mystics game with Deitrick Haddon during the summer, and the Christ on the Mall event with Riff-Raff in front of thousands and thousands.

But there is so much more to build, and if I'm serious about growing this ministry of fusing God's word with hip-hop, I'll have to take a long term approach. Mark 4:5 & 6 talks about seed that "sprung up quickly because the soil was shallow" only to be withered away by the sun because they "had no root."

It takes time to grow roots. People can't see the roots. People don't celebrate the roots or pay to come see the roots, or tell their friends about the roots. But if you don't have roots, you can't take the heat in the long run.

I pray for a heart with deep soil. I want deep roots, that's how you get to Mark 4:8!