Due Dillegence: Caring for Your Nets

The primary principle of Stock Casting involves seeking God in pray in evey aspect of our lives but in particular in our daily dealings with the stock market. While prayer is the primary principle of stock casting, prayer does not spare us from our other responsiblity; caring for our nets.

When Christ told the fishermen to cast their nets to the other side of the boat, their nets were ready to be used. Are your nets ready for when you hear the voice of God directing you? What kind of research and due dillegence have you done? What use would have Christ's fishing guidance have been for the disciples if they had left their nets on the shore? They would have been ill equipred to listen to the voice of God. Are you prepared? Are you ready to hear the voice of God and to use the talents he has given you?

Jesus speaks of preparadness in the parable of the ten virgins, five which had brought extra oil for their lambs and five who did not and were not ready for when the bridge groom arived. How prepared are you?

In the parable of the talents, God gives each and every one of us certain talents and he expects us to use those talents and multiple them. These talents are like the nets or fishing equipment we have to be prepared to use them, we have to be prepared to cast our nets. Fishermen spend a great deal of their time preparing and cleaning their nets so that there are no dead fish or holes in the nets. It is our responsiblity as Christians to be responsible. Go to our workplace prepared for the coming day. There is no slacking. Due dillegence and time spent learning and growing is our responsibility.

God has given us our nets and expects us to maintain them an use them properly. Nets have a function, the function of a net is to catch fish. If you are in the stock market it is likely that God gave you that talent to analysing and picking stocks. While prayer is the foundation of stock casting we can't forget it is still our responsiblity to constantly fine tune the talents that God has given us and continue to develop them.

Pathfinder Meeting

I know many of you are getting very excited about our upcoming Pathfinders session on Tuesday, April 25th -- Grazia and I certainly are!!!!!

This is a reminder that we will be meeting up again in 2 weeks to discuss your results from the strengths finder test, how they support or compliment your current work or the work you are looking to do and how they align more broadly to your personal life and your spiritual talents / serving within the church.

If you have not started reading the book, DO NOT PANIC or worse, elect not to attend. We advised you take the test from the book Now Discover Your Strengths because we found it personally invaluable and we still encourage you to take the test, read through what your top strengths mean and then perhaps a chapter or two on the theory / methodology. But the most important task is taking the test. So please don't feel the pressure to read the book in its entirety.

Please RSVP with graziasorice@gmail.com between now and Friday, April 21, if you plan to attend so we can nail down the location. If there are fewer people, we may move venues to our apartment on the upper west side. Your cooperation in this is appreciated.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Best,
Grazia & Gian-Carlo