Heroes and Giantslayers by Rhenardo Worrell (books to read in a lifetime txt) 📖

refuse it politely. He said “this is not the time. Money is not your motive.”

 

She thought about it. He knew she needed money, but she was gaining something more. She wanted all of it. She was focused, and agreed that money was not her motive.

 

She submitted to the elder’s instructions and directions. He had to know what he was talking about, after all he was rich.

 

“What do you think so far?” he asked.

 

“I’m not sure but I am willing to work hard,” she answered.

 

He continued saying, “I’m sure you will do your best, but life is not about hard work or talent, even when they are required. You eliminate the pressure to perform when you decide to set your mind by making heromotive lenses your focus.”

 

“What do you mean?” she ask.

 

“You focus on your heromotive lenses to remove worry and eliminate stress,” he answered.

 

She finished her drink and sandwich in silence. She thanked him several times. He wrote his cell phone number on the torn paper with her assessment results and gave it to her before she started the long walk home in the rain.

 

As she walked home she rehearsed her heromotive lenses.

 

“I am like heromotive acceptance that confirms my identity so I am like God.”

 

 “I am like heromotive at cost that can be seen and cannot be repaid so I am significant."

 

“I am like heromotive that speaks identity into existence so my words have power.”

 

“I am like heromotive that covers others with relationships I create that never fail so I have purpose.”

 

Her sons were at home when she arrived. She had been gone a long time. They were concerned. She sat with them both and gave them instructions. She had the best sons in the world if you asked her. It was an opinion that not everyone shared, but that didn’t matter to Kim. Her sons knew the financial challenges she faced and wanted to help. They didn’t ask questions about her instructions but obeyed their mother because they trusted her motives.

 

Her sons went out immediately the next morning to talk to their neighbors borrowing their time, door to door and as they met them around the community. The sons served their neighbors with polite conversations. They told each neighbor about the offer their mother was making to pour from her wealth to provide answers they needed that honored each of them with relationships she created that never failed. The sons answered their neighbor’s questions as best they could. They made a list of neighbors who wanted to participate.

 

Many of their neighbors knew them or at least recognized them from the neighborhood. These neighbors weren’t sure how Kim would provide the answers they needed but they were willing to give her a try since she was doing it for free. Kim’s sons brought the list of neighbors to Kim.

 

Her sons listed the needs for each neighbor next to their names. Kim decided she would set her mind focusing on her heromotive lenses to remove the performance pressure of answering all of the neighbor’s needs as she was taught. She went to each neighbor and poured from her wealth providing answers through relationships she created that honored them and built grace equity in all of them. The relationships she created with each neighbor was different but the wealth was consistent. Some relationships were simple. She was an instructor, a dishwasher, a painter, a gardener, even did some bookkeeping. Other relationships she created were more complicated. She considered her wealth only when providing solutions through these relationships. She also remembered to make heromotive lenses her priority to give focus to her significance, identity, power and purpose while in her process.

 

Heromotive lenses were necessary when working with her neighbors became tough. They asked a lot of questions. She recognized that this was only natural. They were trying to understand why she was providing answers they needed for free. Their questions at times introduced fear because she didn’t know exactly why she was providing answers for free.

 

Jackie Armstrong was one of Kim’s questioning neighbors. Jackie’s questions were more criticism than questions. Jackie and her sister Wanda asked why Kim wasn’t looking for a job. They asked how she was going to pay her mortgage? They didn’t understand why anyone would want answers from Kim anyway, especially when she didn’t have answers for herself.

 

Jackie told Kim that everybody knew her house was in foreclosure.

 

Kim remembered the four milestones. She used her evidence to direct her steps as she poured from her wealth. She submitted to heromotive with passion to remove excuses and complaints.

 

As Kim continued to use her wealth it became sharper. Her wealth affirmed her significance. It felt good when she used it. She welcomed the affirmation she felt each time she poured from her wealth to provide effective answers for her neighbors through relationships she created that honored them and built grace equity in them.

 

Kim felt embarrassed when she thought about Jackie’s words. She recognized fear was lurking like it always does. However her embarrassment didn’t diminish her significance, not one bit. She didn’t allow fear to lead. She realized that her identity was not determined by the foreclosure. She saw herself through heromotive lenses. What she saw through the lenses was more permanent than her temporary failure.

 

She couldn’t stop the thoughts that caused fear as she served her neighbors, but her significance allowed her to nullify the effects of fear. She boldly faced her fear with confidence. She overcame traps from the three basic fears. Her fearlessness had produced confidence that set the temperature for significance to grow in her thinking like a seed.

 

Her wealth could be seen in the answers she provided to her neighbors. Each time a neighbor’s needs were filled she crossed their name off her list. She trusted her evidence and heromotive so she poured answers from her wealth that built grace equity in her neighbors which could produce answers to meet her own needs.

 

Her neighbors were pleased with Kim’s answers. Many offered money in exchange for the answers she poured out generously from her wealth because they knew about the foreclosure. She refused politely as she was instructed. Fear that she was making a mistake by refusing the money scared her at first, but she remembered her significance. She trusted her evidence and heromotive. She was focused on giving with hero purpose according to heromotive.

 

The elder promised her she would receive answers for her debts by trusting her evidence and heromotive. She submitted to the elder’s instructions. His instructions had also become her evidence.

 

She used the heromotive lenses to set her mind to enjoy her process and avoid performance pressure. When all the needs of the people on her list were filled the wealth that generously poured answers to her neighbors was no longer required. She was drained physically, but she was excited and affirmed in so many other ways. Her wealth had become her evidence, shaping her thoughts, feelings, and choices. She was optimistic about her life.

 

It was peaceful. She was pleased.

 

New Beginning

 

Chapter 8

 

The elder agreed to meet her at the coffee house again. He bought her a peppermint mocha and himself a cup of coffee and pastry. They sat down at a table together and she told him about her task. She smiled as she talked to him and thanked him for the drink. He smiled in like manner. Today she could see the smile in his eyes.

 

She discussed her assignment with him for some time. She shared her experiences and discoveries. He listened with patience and responded here and there. When she finished she waited in expectation for new instruction. He responded as she concluded.

 

“Go back to your list of neighbors and all the people you honored by generously pouring from your wealth to provide answers through relationships you created to meet their needs. This time ask them if they would hire you in the future, when needed, to receive the wealth you proved to them when you met their needs for free. They will respond based on the grace equity at work in them,” he instructed. “Ask for a small retainer in exchange for your commitment to prioritize their requests for answers from your wealth. Be prepared, news about how good your wealth works has already been shared among all your neighbors, including neighbors who haven’t yet experienced your wealth. You will gain their interest as well because of their desire for the answers provided by your wealth. Examine your peace each time you take a retainer from your neighbors. Don’t compromise heromotive lenses for money. You may have to say no to some of them. Use the money from the retainers to pay your husband’s creditors. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

 

She stared at him in disbelief. She had her answer. She now understood how grace equity produced answers. It was at work in the thinking of everyone she provided answers for using her wealth. Every relationship was important. Now the answer she hoped was in reach.

 

Grace is the manifestation of heromotive.  Grace equity produced the realization of her hope.

 

He told her that significance equipped her to face fear. It nullified the whirlwind.

 

He settled back in his chair. He said "the basic truth is that your evidence worked for you, leading you to success.”

 

He paused. "You are wealthy right now,” he announced. “You used heromotive lenses to discover significance, identity, power and purpose. It’s not a mystery. We all have the same purpose. We give by pouring out answers that honor people through relationships we create using heromotive. Those who haven’t accepted heromotive limit their purpose. What makes purpose unique to each of us is how we give heromotive best. It is our wealth. It never fails.”

 

She nodded her head in agreement.

 

“When your wealth becomes your evidence it is planted in your thinking. You are able to provide answers for others without limitation. This is heroic performance."

 

The tears streamed down her cheeks as she rested in her chair. His words were comforting.

 

His throat was dry so he sipped his coffee. He smiled. He was enjoying this moment with Kim.

 

Kim had discovered her wealth and how to use it to pay her husband’s creditors. She looked forward to other opportunities to generously pour out answers for others from her wealth. Her heart was full of joy even before the first creditor was paid. She was whole.

 

He told her that she always had everything she needed to be whole. She just needed to look for it using the proper lenses.

 

“Kim you’re like God. You were born that way,” he said. “The heromotive ego lens confirms your identity. You have to continually decide to see yourself through heromotive lenses to satisfy your visceral need for wholeness or balance even when you don’t feel whole or balanced.  If you decide not to see yourself through heromotive lenses to satisfy your need for wholeness or balance then you’re deciding to use emotional self-effort for satisfaction by finding comfort in your past experiences using muscle memory or by selfish lifestyle choices led solely by ideas that feel appealing, interesting or comforting right now which could ultimately disrupt your life and rules of engagement with others.”

 

She realized that the elder had generously poured out answers from his wealth