{"id":151,"date":"2013-01-23T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-process-of-remaking-a-man\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T07:03:00","slug":"the-process-of-remaking-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-process-of-remaking-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Process of Remaking a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Kid<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>As I noted earlier in the week, this post is coming to shed some light on a long journey. The journey about the process of remaking a man. That man would be me.<\/p>\n

It's been quite a process, this remaking dance.<\/p>\n

I was out running a few mornings back and was listening to the Rush song Subdivisions. The following lyric held my mind as body continued to move:<\/p>\n

Some will sell their dreams for small desires<\/em><\/strong>
Or lose the race to rats<\/em><\/strong>
Get caught in ticking traps<\/em><\/strong>
And start to dream of somewhere<\/em><\/strong>
To relax their restless flight<\/em><\/strong>
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I'm still running and Coldplay's Viva La Vida<\/a> appears on my iPod. This verse freezes me once again:<\/p>\n

One minute I held the key<\/strong><\/em>
Next the walls were closed on me<\/strong><\/em>
And I discovered that my castles stand<\/strong><\/em>
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As I was heading home I remembered a former boss. I hated him. He wasn't very kind, would embarrass me publicly and easily looked passed me. But he kept me because I made him and the organization money. It was a bad situation to be knee-deep in. But I was, with things moving fast and no time to step back.<\/p>\n

In 2005, a coup was set in motion and I was a willing agent. Made friends with the devil for short time and he got what was coming. I rejoiced at his removal. Never thought about his struggle or his family or his grappling with a job search. I thought justice had been served.<\/p>\n

What the hell was I doing?<\/p>\n

Close to a year later I was on the receiving end of what my former boss got. Just rewards you might think. Maybe so. In the end, my life would never be the same again. <\/p>\n

And here's why:<\/p>\n

I've chronicled in this blog a lot about my journey. Sometimes in bits and pieces, sometimes in focused light. Maybe I've made this clear, but I needed to be remade. I needed a new operating system.<\/p>\n

God gave me an operating system when I was much younger and I chose to add and take away. I guess I felt the pressure to do it my way. You know, feeling like God could use some help. A little more salt, please. The reality was rooted in my deep fear that in the end I was ultimately on my own. This was a lie I felt was true, due to the circumstances (family, society, career, business, whatever).<\/p>\n

Ironically, I moved to a space where God could find me vulnerable with no exits. It was not my plan to do this I fully believe that my story is rooted in God wanting to catch me<\/strong> and transform me. That reality is bigger than entrepreneurship, writing a book, material success, and all the other bragging rights we often crave. What happened to me is not unlike what many a man and women have faced at one time or another.<\/p>\n

Some have asked, and wondered without speaking, why my last seven years has been such a struggle, a desert. I wish I had an answer that could wrap everything in a box with red ribbon. My story is not that story. My story resembles<\/strong> people like Nebuchadnezzar, Paul, or maybe you. Men and women who have to go through a remake that is humbling, painful, frustrating, confusing, and in the end beautiful.<\/p>\n

So I don't know if I will make money online, be a top 10 blog, write a best-selling book<\/a>, or create the next "killer app<\/a>." I am certain I becoming more of a man who's working on becoming what God intended. The other has its place. One thing is clear to me though, I am dancing with my Epic life<\/strong> instead of looking out there and wondering what it feels like.<\/p>\n

Dancing is nice.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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