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    Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into your Marriage
    Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into your Marriage
    Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into your Marriage
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    Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into your Marriage

    By Leslie Wright and Patricia E. Gregory

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    Your marriage is a divine partnership that makes up a SACRED ENTERPRISE!

    Think about the power of unity that is facilitated in a boardroom to make power moves for an entire company. The partnership that is your marriage exudes that same power. However, in order to be effective executives, you must utilize the simple tool; executive meetings – dates.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 30, 2014
    ISBN9780990470113
    Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into your Marriage

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      Sacred Business - Leslie Wright

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      FOREWORD

      Perception is everything!

      At least that’s what I was told when desiring to market my new small business. What people see tends to determine their acceptance or rejection of an idea, concept, product or service, or so I was told. I grew up believing that words like, desirable, fun, inviting, beautiful, challenging and lovely were just some of the words that SHOULD describe MARRIAGE. You know, that sacred relationship, Holy Matrimony, that covenant relationship between a man and a woman that is supposed to end with, …happily ever after and riding off into the sunset. However, the harsh reality is that we live in a country where the current divorce rate is 43 percent. This is great news compared to 52 percent in 2000 (CDC/NHSR #49). But this great news is quickly diluted when we realize that only 31 percent of young Americans are getting married today compared to 92 percent in 1920 (Huffington Post 7/22/13 Ed.).

      So what happened?

      Perhaps the perception of marriage became more unattractive as the reality of marriage and even raw untamed humanity came to the forefront? Perhaps doing me has become more important than taking it for the team. Although it’s good to look the part, being the part is so much more effective and permanent. Has society given up on marriage because it has nothing to offer?! Of course not, but addressing the lack of preparation and weakened spiritual foundations will turn the perception of marriage into a real goal and not just a concept. But first we need committed and loving couples.

      Hence this devotional!

      Separated from home and family, being in the military poses so many threats, not only on the lives of the service member but their commitments back home, i.e. marriages. Some would share their once devoted bodies with other service members in the name of loneliness. This would be a convenient exchange because, much like Las Vegas, what happens in the military (is supposed to) stay in the military. Until that service member is reunited with their spouse. Then there’s an unexplainable distance that is easiest ignored until ultimately the quiet bouts and distant thoughts become too loud to ignore. Yes, forever faithful has been diminished to except when I’m lonely even if I’m married. Then comes someone who dares to face the marital opposition and restore hope with practical tools to aid in a successful marriage.

      When Leslie approached me about her idea to write a book, a devotional on marriage, of course my first thought was, …but you’re not married nor have you ever been. However her response was so compelling and passionate that I had to think of marriage not only as a God ordained relationship but a living example of life, love, and overcoming on display for the world to not only see but desire or reject. Leslie reminded me that marriage did not only involve or affect the two that are married but everyone who observes that marriage including, most importantly, the children. We cannot determine who we influence nor can we determine the impact of our influence but, we do get to enhance the viability of victory in the ones that we do influence by our example. That is done when we endeavor to live life and are married with and on purpose.

      Leslie had been wrought with failed relationships, both observed and experienced. She saw her experience in the military as a boot camp for marital warfare and resolved to not enlist the destructive behavior that compromised the sanctity of marriage. She thought that marriage was valuable enough to invest time, energy and a lot of research in salvaging its perception and reputation. Leslie wrote this devotional from the perspective of an onlooker, hoping to someday experience the marital bliss that is ordained by God for her life.

      Sacred Business: Taking Principles from the Boardroom into the Marriage is full of practical but oftentimes overlooked necessities of a successful relationship. EVERY successful venture requires WORK. When we enter into business, typically we have a plan, a product or service and an ideal consumer. Marriage is much like a business. However, most people have no kind of plan or purposeful method to make that relationship successful. Too often more planning and effort goes into the wedding rather than the marriage.

      Sacred Business offers a plan that, when observed and handled diligently, will prevail in what I call ‘stepping stone success.’ This is a spring board that challenges thinking, engages effort and promises growth.

      The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. – Proverbs 21:5 KJV

      Anything worth building must have a strong foundation. Realizing that we are God’s workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), we must have a spiritual foundation for our personal lives as well as in our marriage. In Sacred Business you’ll find Leslie’s creative process that engages both the practical and spiritual. Although she’s a woman, she has no problems charging the husband as being the leader and the responsible CEO.

      Each week of devotionals is conceptualized as an executive meeting which invites dialogue, thought, and planning. But within that executive meeting is an intentional plan to examine, grow, and encourage spiritual growth and conviction, both personal and marital. Leslie has relentlessly allowed the Spirit of God to lead her into addressing a vast range of obstacles and distractions that take place in the marriage union. As a single mom, Leslie cleverly integrated the children as being a part of this franchise, understanding that the children do innocently reflect the conditions within the household and influence multiple inquisitive onlookers.

      I encourage you to take your time to invest in and actively participate with this devotional. Though you may think no one is watching, there are plenty of ‘Leslies’ who are impacted by your marriage and the example you set. Believe it or not, your influence, though perhaps quiet is so very important to the everyday victories that others may…or may not experience. Tap into that ‘inner CEO/COO’ and aim for success in the most important ‘franchise’ of which you’ll ever be a part – YOUR Sacred Enterprise.

      Minister Patricia E. Gregory

      www.LinkedUPChurch.com

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I would like to acknowledge my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You are definitely the author of my life and this here work of love. The very fact that You trust me with your first ministry – marriage; I am in awe of. I am truly honored that You thought enough of and entrust me to minister to the ministry of marriage to confound the wise as I have not walked out my own ministry office of a wife in the natural YET. The very fact that I move in this capacity is a blessing and all glory belongs to You. You have definitely put super on my natural journey of education, certifications, and life experience. Thank you Jesus! Grace…

      To my beautiful blessing and angel Janiah MsSacredMini Rai, I am super grateful for your accountability. From the day I found out I was pregnant with you, I knew you were special. Even at the tender age of 8 you kept me accountable during my writing process. Every day I picked you up from school you’d say You finish your book yet Mommy?!? I tear up now thinking of how proud you were to know I was being obedient to even write. I couldn’t have finished this book without your love, support, and most importantly YOUR PATIENCE as I wrote. We did this! I love you gorgeous!

      To my mother Simone Alisa, your entrepreneurial spirit burns the fuel to my drive that is me as a woman. I believe that I can go against the grain and dare to be the me God created me to be because of your love to live authentically. You are amazing and inspire me to be great. I love you Ma!

      To my daddy, Glen Wright, you are a great man. Words cannot express my gratitude for your very existence. I am because you are. A girl could not ask for a better father. Your commitment to me as a father has shaped me to believe and commit to my dreams. I am grateful for and love you so much. I am proud to call you Father!

      To my bonus mommy, Cheryl Wright, I love you. I have thoroughly enjoyed our talks and cackling on the phone during my writing breaks while you were on break. Your prayers and belief in me means the world to me. I’m so grateful that your silly matches my silly! Shon Da!

      To my amazing and anointed spiritual parents, Joel and Patricia Gregory of Linked UP Church, the very character that you two maneuver in is unparallel. I can say that with conviction because of the journey you have just walked through boldly with the grace of God. I am continually renewed because of your obedience to live what you teach. I love you so much! Thanks Mom for standing with, loving on, and praying with me. YOU are a rare gem in my life Minster Trish! ;-) I praise God that I am able to be covered by you both.

      To my

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