Rural Water - Quarter 4, 2012 - (Page 50) A From the CEO road do I take?’ she asked. 50 • Fourth Quarter 2012 We Are Our Choices “ALICE CAME TO a fork in the road. ‘Which BY ROB JOHNSON, NRWA CEO Throughout all Moses was obedient to God. He left what was comfortable and familiar and did not compromise in his commitments. Is it hard to make decisions when you know what your values are? No. Is the right choice always the easy choice? Rarely! In the course of providing water and wastewater ser v ice to your customers, you face a multitude of choices every day. The more we become accustomed to doing the right thing, every day, the more it becomes a habit. When the really difficult choice comes, the easier it becomes to enlist an approving conscience. “We are our choices.” –Sartre ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.” In Hebrews 11:23-25, a man is shown making a difficult choice. It was one that would have great consequences for him and for his relatives. You see this man was the adopted son of the daughter of Pharaoh and as such was set to live a life of luxury and have all his needs met for his entire life. His choice was a life of pleasure or a life of suffering. And his choice? “By faith Moses forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king and chose to follow God.” After leaving Egypt, Moses became a shepherd until an amazing encounter with God. Then Moses faced a second choice – at the age of eighty to give up his comfortable life as a shepherd and obey God or not? Obviously he left home and went back to Egypt. In the course of providing water and To stand before the most powerful man wastewater service to your customers, on earth at the time and ask that he release the approximately two million people who you face a multitude of choices every were the backbone of Egypt’s economy day. The more we become accustomed was Moses’ third choice. “Let my people go” Moses said. to doing the right thing, every day, the Moses’ last message to more it becomes a habit. Pharaoh was the most difficult because it involved blood and death and he knew the outcome. http://www.naylornetwork.com/nrw-nxt/ Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rural Water - Quarter 4, 2012 From the President Standard Operating Procedures for Flood Preparation and Response Drought Management Planning Fracking: Is it a Threat? Disaster Relief in the Social Media Age The Social Media Mullet Nashville is a Smash Rural Water Honors the Best of the Best Throwing my Loop Index to Advertisers / Advertisers.com From the CEO Rural Water - Quarter 4, 2012 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0412 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0312 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0212 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0112 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0411 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0311 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0211 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0111 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0410 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0310 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0210 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0110 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0409 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0309 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0209 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0109 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0408 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0308 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0208 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/NRWQ0108 http://www.nxtbookMEDIA.com
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