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Dustin Holm continues clearing the desert BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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ustin Holm of Anthem-based North Valley Custom Hauling said he was shocked to be honored by Rep. Debbie Lesko and the Anthem Area Chamber of Commerce at the business organization’s annual awards. After all, he said, accolades were never his goal. He’s clearing the North Valley of debris one piece of trash at a time. “I was surprised to be recognized by the community,” he said. “The Congressional Recognition letter from Debbie Lesko was cool, too. There was a lot of excitement at the event.” In 2021, North Valley Custom Hauling completed nine large cleanups, averaging 40 to 50 volunteers at a time. They tallied 50,000 pounds of debris this year.
Holm said 18 months ago that “the illegal dumping program is out of control.” His opinion has since changed. “I can always go out and find something, but it’s getting harder to find (debris) and that’s a good thing,” he said. When the Sacramento native founded North Valley Custom Hauling four years ago, it covered 85086, 85085, North Scottsdale and all along the Carefree corridor. He’s expanding beyond that now. “We go out to Cave Creek and around by Lake Pleasant,” he said. “As long as the volunteers have an appetite, I’d be willing to go. The city, as a whole, has a lot of different litter sites throughout. “So far, everybody has been really receptive to keeping it going. I was going to quit from June to September, but we ended up getting a few in.” Holm said he primarily works with real
estate agents, who must clean out homes before they’re moved into; local businesses; and those who are moving. North Valley Custom Hauling doesn’t move trash or chemicals. His definition of “trash” is anything one would throw in a trash can. “We move large items like furniture, hot tubs, sectionals and refrigerators,” he said. “We’re on-demand, bulk pick-up. If someone’s moving and they have a pile of what they don’t need to take, we’ll take it.” Owning North Valley Custom Hauling is appropriate for Holm. In his early 20s, he was in the furniture business. His resume also includes stints in construction, commercial truck driving and home loans. They all provided Holm with experience to accomplish his tasks. “The furniture business correlated to
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“Our school was so excited when we heard we would receive the AZSTA grant,” said Great Hearts Anthem Prep Headmaster Zackary Withers. “The money will be used to bolster our athletic facilities enabling us to better support our student-athletes at Great Hearts
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moving furniture out of people’s homes,” he said. “We have to be safe with houses. I’ve been in construction. That knowledge helps with tearing down sheds, small garden walls or fountains. “For a short period of time, I was a commercial truck driver. I have a truck and a trailer now. All these past experiences tie in with the junk removal business.” Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, North Valley Custom Hauling has remained busy. His business is unique in that most customers are new. “We have several repeat customers, but we don’t have a whole lot of residual business, like landscapers would,” he said. Holm loves his business, but he finds caring for the community even more enjoyable, yet frustrating. “Dumping clothes and bags of garbage is just senseless,” he said. “Education is the key. The cities and towns need to educate the public on where to take these items. If it was easier for people, it would be less of a problem.
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“It just feels good to clean up the desert. I take my guys with me. They help out and volunteer, too. I tell them we’re making a difference. It’s a small difference, but every little bit helps.”
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Anthem.” Projects also include the construction of an all-abilities recreation center for youth with Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy and other intellectual developmental disabilities at the Civitan Foundation’s headquarters in Phoenix; and facility renovation and new equipment for ICAN: Positive Programs for Youth, a Chandler-based nonprofit that provides child care services for families living in poverty. Since its inception in 2001, AZSTA has distributed nearly $27 million to help fund more than 500 projects across Maricopa County through its youth and amateur sports grants, fulfilling AZSTA’s enabling legislation. “AZSTA is proud to assist these youth and amateur sports organizations as they recover from the financial challenges caused by COVID-19,” said AZSTA Board Chair Teddy Eynon. “By distributing nearly $27 million in grants since 2001, AZSTA continues to fulfill the promise made to Marico-
pa County voters when they approved Proposition 302.” Added Scarlett Spring, chair of AZSTA’s Youth and Amateur Sports committee, “We believe that this money will benefit the 2021 AZSTA Youth and Amateur Sports grant recipients as they do their amazing work despite the pandemic. “We are fortunate to have so many worthy nonprofits, schools and municipalities that make a difference in the lives of so many Arizonans.” Grant recipients demonstrated financial need, leveraged funding, community partnerships and a benefit to a local community in Maricopa County, with priority given to youth recreational facilities that are close to public schools or benefit them.
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Women’s investment group seeks members Since the pandemic, 36% of women are taking steps to better educate themselves on money and how to invest it. Money can be a touchy subject. There is so much to understand and, many times, people don’t know where to start. Join an all-women’s investment group during its meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Anthem Civic Center, 3701 W. Anthem Way, to meet like-minded ladies. To reserve a spot, email drewdoreen@ gmail.com. Register for 2022 dog park memberships Registration for the 2022 Anthem Dog Park memberships is open. The process can be fully completed online at onlineatanthem.com.
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Anthem Day sponsors sought The Anthem Community Council is calling for sponsors for the 2022 Anthem Days. Information about the various sponsorship levels is available at https:// bit.ly/AnthemDaysSponsorships. The submission deadline is Friday, Jan. 14, to receive full benefits. Anthem Days is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 26 and March 27 at the Community Park, 41703 N. Gavilan Peak Parkway. The free, family-friendly event includes a business expo, craft vendors, carnival, food vendors, and entertainment. The event is open to the public. Admission and parking are free. Christmas tree dump Republic Services will provide natural tree drive-thru drop-off from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays Jan. 8 and Jan. 15. Enter the lower lot of Community Park from
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he students at Great Hearts Anthem have been busy with community projects at the close of the school year. The Anthem Prep Mentorship Team, led by eighth grader Ava Gatesman, initiated a charity drive last month to make tote bags that were to be handed out by volunteers from the Phoenix Rescue
Mission. Students were assigned items of need to collect for the homeless population. The tote bag includes items such as T-shirts, socks, toothbrush and toothpaste, sunblock, lotion, lip balm, deodorant, soap bars and granola bars. Great Hearts Anthem Prep families donated
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9,655 items, which filled 523 tote bags for the homeless. The total value of donations was $18,195. First-year headmaster Zack Withers was impressed by the generosity of Anthem Prep families. “Our fellow Arizona citizens who need it most will now have much-needed basic supplies because of the generosity of our Great Hearts Anthem Prep families,” Withers said. In addition to the Phoenix Rescue Mission Tote Bag Drive, Anthem Prep students and staff had a strong presence at the Veterans Day Parade, with the senior and freshman classes writing over 700 notes of appreciation to service men and women. Students also created a float for the parade. The project was led by Great Hearts Anthem Director of Operations Jen Sylvester. Eight veterans connected to the school were asked to sit on the float to honor their service. The design of the float incorporated the word “HEROES,” with each letter made up of pictures of veter-
ans that were submitted by family and staff at the school. More than 30 students from Anthem Archway and Prep marched in the parade, with some carrying a banner that read, “Great Hearts Anthem Supports Our Veterans,” with an American flag in the background. The school finished this year with a charity food drive for local food banks. Fifth graders brought in the most items, raising over $5,300 in donations. “We are committed to developing Great Hearted students who actively engage in the community,” Withers said. “Anthem Prep’s mission is to ‘cultivate the minds and hearts of students in the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty,’ and it is through service to others that this mission is realized.” Archway Headmaster Teresa Clark, a 12-year founding member of the school, added, “The Archway and Anthem Prep community made this the most successful charity drive in our school’s history.”
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Alice Cooper teams with Salvation Army to provide holiday fun for kids BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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Alice Cooper hosts “Solid Rockin’ Christmas” with Salvation Army. ter Phoenix, along with students from Wilson Elementary. Kids had access to foosball tables, a shuffleboard table and air hockey. They were treated to performances by Footklan and the Bucket Brigade and got to meet mascots and characters from Arizona sports teams. Even Santa made an appearance, with a toy for each of the kids, which were sponsored by BOK Financial.
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A free lunch was also provided by the Original Breakfast House, and Cooper himself served the macaroni and cheese. “Today, I want everybody to have as much possible fun as you can have,” Cooper said to the crowd at the event. “We’re gonna eat, we’re gonna see a show, we’re going to do all kinds of stuff. So,
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we should keep all of our “bad habits.” He wrote that habits are like baggage that comes in handy when your ship is sinking and you need to throw something overboard. He claimed that when your health begins to fail, it is always good to have a “few bad habits,” like smoking, drinking and overeating, that you can “toss aside.” I mentioned this philosophy to my physician, and she adamantly disagrees. On that note, I suppose healthy eating and lifestyle choices should be a resolution worth considering. Reflecting back on 2021 might cause us to wonder how the year flew by. Many Americans moved, left their jobs and worked from home. It seems like everyone was remodeling. Housing prices soared. So did gas prices and inflation. We learned how to have meetings on Zoom and video calls became a big part of our life. Many folks limited travel, parties and gatherings. The coronavirus reared its head and still caused havoc. We experienced supply shortages that we simply aren’t used to in America. And we cooked. As one woman emailed me, “Never did I consider that being an adult would mean that I will need to cook dinner every night. Of my entire life. For the rest of my life.” Yes, the cooking classes began at the beginning of the pandemic and have never stopped. Welcome aboard Flight 2022. Takeoff is New Year’s Day. There is no baggage allowed on this flight. Only positive attitudes, hope for better days, and faith for reaching new heights. Destination? New beginnings. Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local realtor. Have a question or a comment? Email Judy at judy@judybluhm.com.
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Big Apple trip poses a question be�itting ‘Hamlet’ BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Foothills Focus Columnist
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arly on in your relationship, she confessed a semi-startling fact. While she had visited China as a little girl and walked along the Great Wall, never once had she been to New York City. To her, the metropolis back east seemed like a gleaming trophy to life made large. Broadway, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty. Skyscrapers and a chance to stride up Fifth Avenue in spike heels, like Carrie in “Sex and the City.” To you, the city was home once, the backdrop for a million childhood memories: a piping hot slice of pizza dripping with cheese, a walk around the Central Park reservoir, the concrete stoop fronting the old red brick apartment in Queens, the Garden for a Knicks game, a knish purchased from a street vendor and painted in brown mustard. She dreamed aloud. You egged it on,
and thus a trip was born. New York at Christmastime and for New Year’s Eve. Plane tickets were purchased, hotel, theater and dinner reservations were made. And then Omicron showed up, which is exactly America’s luck in 2021. The spiking pandemic gives rise to a question, one that feels a little bit like some bad “Hamlet,” given that vacation issues are a decidedly first-world problem to have in the midst of global affliction. To go or not to go? To get on that jetliner, which departs tonight, or to cancel our plans and instead spend Christmas watching “Miracle on 34th Street,” instead of living it? Some background: We have both been vaccinated three times, and thus have been maximally protected against the dread virus. We are both in good health. We both understand that New York City will still be there next month, next year, next vacation, or the one after that.
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And yet making the trip still feels tempting, especially when you run the numbers in your head. Last week in New York City, the infection rate among all 8 million residents was 193 infections for every 100,000 people. That’s a tenth of a percentage point chance of getting sick – and the infection rate for the vaccinated is half as much. This year in New York, COVID-19 has claimed one life for every 200,000 vaccinated residents. Put another way, I’d have a better chance of getting a hole in one (12,500 to 1) or being killed by lightning (1 in 138,849, according to the National Safety Council). Then again, to quote Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas from “Dumb and Dumber,” “So you’re saying there’s a chance?” Life is a series of calculated risks. Some of us have decided not to get vaccinated. Other people continue to avoid indoor gatherings and to wear masks while they’re outside walking their dogs.
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There are those of us who smoke despite the threat of lung cancer, others who would never think of wearing a motorcycle helmet because they like to feel like a badass. One of my buddies went skydiving last year. I turned down the invitation, saying I avoid optional danger in all forms, including jumping out of perfectly functional airplanes. But now here I am, contemplating risking my life for a hot dog with sauerkraut from Gray’s Papaya and the opportunity to show a pretty girl with a huge heart the Tyrannosaurus Rex exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. What would you do: Throw caution to the wind and live your life? Or give Omicron a wide berth and avoid New York literally like the plague? One thing’s for sure. If I go and end up in intensive care or dead, everyone who read this column and thought “tsk, tsk” sure will have one last chance to say “I told you so.”
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is the week before New Year’s, and for better or worse— The words of this column are written in verse. Campaigns are concocted, plans are made for the air, as politicians hope to show how much they know and they care. The voters are struggling, no names have been mentioned as thanks to inflation, folks can’t pay for attention! Mom was pacing the floor; Dad had joined her there…wishing they could print money right out of thin air! Then on the TV, they heard such a clatter, they both turned to watch and see what was the matter. On the screen was a show from the news folks of cable,
devoid of facts and heavy on fable. The interview guest neither wanted to hear was a doctor, adept at marketing fear. He drove home his message, laying it on thick, spreading the notion the viewers were sick. “First COVID, then Delta and Omicron, too! I bet there’s a mutation that’s coming for you!!” “Now, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson… Forget “gain of function…” I’ll just redefine it! “From a bat cave to the lab…no, not a Wuhan market stall… you paid for it…paid for it…paid for it all!” As the outrage grew louder, the viewers grew mad, so convinced were they that this short doctor was bad… And fiercer and fiercer their outrage grew… at the leftist
networks and the small doctor. too! And then, in a twinkling, it all went “Poof!” As Hollywood actors acted out their “proof…” So skillful were they, their scripts turned folks around… And Dr. Fauci was able to scale the rebound! He was dressed all in white, from his toe to his head, But why did this doctor seem to delight in the dread? Therapeutics? He denied folks…and with that he was fine… As if he were saying that “your fate is mine!” Oh, how he loved it! His demeanor so merry… As if he determined which poor souls would be buried. His creepy old mouth was set firm in a smirk…
How could anyone deny that this doc was a jerk? He spoke lots of words, but did little work… And yet the left was enamored with each little quirk. He filled all his pockets as the toppaid bureaucrat, and no one at the WaPo could smell the obvious rat. He continues his reign into 2022…and he’ll continue to say, “No cure for you!” But the people have noticed, as he was doing thus… And they know they must stop him… it’s him or it’s us! And so, there you have it…it’s ugly but true… We must get a second opinion in 2022!
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Prioritize mental health in 2022 BY ROCHELLE RYAN Director West Valley Behavioral Health
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s we head into 2022, many of us are making our lists and setting our sights on self-improvement — striving to become the best version of ourselves. We often set resolutions on physical changes that we wish to see and are committed to making our efforts count. Physical transformation is what many strive for but I’m here to remind you that mental health is just as important as your physical health. Why not make it a priority in your life and commit to putting your mental health first in the new year? Prioritizing mental health can be hard. And for many, factors like stress, depression, anxiety and burnout can make it even harder to take the necessary steps to maintain or improve mental health. If this describes you, commit to the following:
Practice self-care Self-care isn’t selfish. Establishing time to focus on yourself and what makes you feel the best can in turn, improve your mental health. Incorporating healthy self-care habits like getting a proper amount of sleep, exercise and spending time in nature can provide a gateway to positive mental health. In 2022, try exploring new stress-free hobbies that keep you feeling relaxed, these could include painting, photography, gardening, cooking and more. Whatever form your self-care may take, take it seriously.
Learn how to say no With life moving so fast, you can begin to stretch yourself too thin and take on tasks that may cause unnecessary stress and burnout. Your time is a valuable resource and not giving yourself the ability to focus on yourself can have a negative impact on your life. Though it may be difficult to say no to some requests, it’s important to learn how to say no for the sake of your own
well-being and mental health. Rather than falling into the habit of saying yes, learn how to consider your actions and what you’re facing.
Ask for help When faced with hard times, retreating and isolating yourself can become a common response, but not everything should be faced alone. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, but instead a sign of bravery and self-awareness that you should embrace in 2022. If you are struggling with your mental health, consider reaching out for advice, guidance or just someone to listen, this will allow you to feel heard and understood. Unplug While this may not be an easy task, limiting your screen time and distancing yourself from constant technology can help you achieve a better work-life balance and have a positive impact on your mental health. With most of us actively using our devices
or always carrying them, they can be hard to let go of. For many of us, our bright phone screens are the first thing we see when we wake up and the last thing we glance at before bed. In 2022, putting your mental health first could mean putting your phone down.
See a mental health professional Whether it be a therapist, life coach or other, seeking professional help may seem intimidating at first, but once you are able to discuss your difficulties you can then begin to grow and learn how to better manage your emotions and understand why you feel the way you do. Though you may be reluctant seeing a mental health professional or returning back to one, it is one of the crucial steps for some that puts them on the track to putting their mental health first. Rochelle Ryan is director of West Valley Behavioral Health for Jewish Family & Children’s Service. For more information about JFCS programs and services, visit jfcsaz.org.
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Camelot Homes launches the luxury brand G3 brand in 2020. “I had an unconventional career path,” amelot Homes has launched an Hancock said. introductory luxury brand: G3 by “I found my way to homebuilding six Camelot Homes. years ago, after graduating with a deLed by 37-year-old third-generation gree in business and marketing, then homebuilder Trent Hancock, the brand following my passion as a singer/songwill focus on homes that offer a first step writer for a decade. I don’t think my famup to luxury. The first project to be built ily ever thought I’d come back. But I did, under the G3 name is Paradigm, a 12-lot and it’s clear to me now that I’ve found gated community coming to North 18th my niche.” Street and East Winchcomb Drive in Joseph Bruner of Circle Road CompaNorth Phoenix in 2022. nies found the land for the project with Paradigm, a collaboration between his father, Circle Road CEO David Bruner. G3 and Circle Road Companies, will fea“When we found this parcel, we ture one- and two-story contemporary jumped on the opportunity to build designs by the local award-winning ar- something really special in this beautiful chitecture firm The Ranch Mine. Homes location,” Joseph said. will range in size from 2,355 to 3,712 “My family has been friends with the square feet, with two to six bedrooms, Hancocks for years, so we knew immetwo and a half to five bathrooms, and diately that Camelot would be the ideal two- to three-car garages. Each 6,000- partner for this project.” to 12,000-square-foot homesite offers Paradigm broke ground on two spec scenic views of the Lookout Mountain homes in November, and the targeted Preserve. Pricing starts in the high delivery for the first homes is July. Each $700,000s. of the two available floorplans capture Hancock joined Camelot Homes in the desert surroundings and provide a 2015 and began working on the G3 seamless connection to outdoor living, including easy access to hiking trails in the surrounding nature preserve. “It’s exciting to be a part of this new brand, and this new project,” Hancock said. “We have a vision for what is lacking in the market and we’re looking forward to building energy-efficient introductory luxury homes, embracing new With G3, each of the two available floorplans capture the desert surroundings and provide a seamless con- styles of architecture, and ultinection to outdoor living, including easy access to mately, testing new ideas — exhiking trails in the surrounding nature preserve. (Photo ploring the boundaries of what courtesy of Camelot Homes) can be done.” BY FOOTHILLS FOCUS STAFF
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Daisy Mountain Fire�ighters makes ‘a big difference’ for Valleywise kids BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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aisy Mountain Firefighters Charities collected and donated hundreds of toys to the Valleywise Health Medical Center for children who have experienced painful or traumatic events on Tuesday, Dec. 21. Ryan Potter, organizer of the Daisy Mountain Charity toy drive, said this has been an annual tradition for the charity organization for about 14 years. Daisy Mountain Firefighter Charities is a nonprofit organization that helps local families in times of need. The charity is composed of fire-
fighters and their family and friends who donate their time, money and resources to help community members. “I can’t tell you how many were donated, because at some point it just becomes way too many to count. But it has been an absolute record year for us. I think we filled a 24-foot box truck all the way to the ceiling with toys.” Potter said this was a record-breaking year in terms of how many toys were donated. He said the charity partnered with local businesses to collect toys from Thanksgiving to mid-December, and the community really came through for the kids. He added that they are extremely grateful to the businesses, volunteers and
community members who helped make this possible and said it was “touching” to see people come together for the cause. Valleywise Health Medical Center was chosen because, as a smaller hospital, it often doesn’t get as much community support as some of the big hospitals in the Valley. “A lot of people, when they’re looking to donate to hospitalized children, they think of the children’s hospitals that we have in town,” said Kyla Brown, child life coordinator for Valleywise Health Medical Center. “So, it’s definitely nice to have people who recognize the need and really reach out to support the patients that we serve.”
Members of the charity, staff at the hospital, volunteers, and even Santa himself showed up to help unload the truck. Brown said with the abundance of toys donated, the hospital should have enough to last year-round. While the toys are given out around Christmastime, the hospital also uses them in situations that are potentially traumatic for kids. “Anytime the patient has painful or invasive procedures like IV starts, blood draws, things like that, we will actually provide them with a toy after that,” Brown explained. “That really helps to make the hospital look more
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pleasant and happy.” She said that, due to COVID-19, kids positive. So that memory of something aren’t really able to use the playroom, that was maybe scary or uncomfort- so having bedside toys available is able is now replaced with something more important than ever, especially when kids sometimes have to stay in the burn unit for weeks or even months at a time. In addition, Brown said toys are just a great way for kids to learn and grow. Brown said these donations mean so much to the kids as well as the staff that get to hand them out. She echoed Potter’s statement that this year’s donation was the largest they have ever received. “We are so appreciative to everybody who donated, who volunteered, who provided, and just for people who are positively impacting the community and specifically those that serve here at Valleywise,” she said. “It’s so great for the employees here to be able to see the smiles they help to create, and that’s really meaningful. It’s making a Both Ryan Potter, organizer of the Daisy Mountain Charity toy drive, and Kyla Brown, child life coordinator for Valleywise big difference in the pediHealth Medical Center, said this was the largest donation they atric patients’ lives in a have ever received. (Submitted photo) really positive way.”
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astor Bill Johnson says: “We need to remain childlike. Children don’t dream of being insigni�icant.” We need to be reminded of this during these crazy, nonsensical times. Children start off seeing life beautifully and innocently. But eventually, life gets to them, molds them, holds them, and hurts them. So often, temporary negatives become permanent negatives, and lifetimes are spent searching for significance in all the wrong places. Recently, I found a short story my son, Matthew, wrote when he was about 10 years old. It illustrates how children don’t dream of being insigni�icant. The story is called “The Bass.” If you think �ishermen have big �ish stories, wait until you read Matt’s �ish story: “One day, I went �ishing with my dad
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boat and the �ish and climbed in. I told dad to get the “weigher.” The bass weighed 600 pounds. Dad and I went back to the �ish dock, and I won the bass tournament. Then, we went home and sat down to think about how I did it. Dad is still acting a little weird. I think it damaged his brain thinking that I caught a bigger bass than him. The end.” Well, you just looked through the eyes of Matthew, who has a big imagination and an even bigger positive attitude. As Pastor Johnson said, children don’t dream of being insigni�icant, especially 10-year-old Matt. It does mental and emotional harm to us adults to hate, gripe, become wounded, bitter, cynical or lose our joy. It’s even worse to lose our childlike trust and perspective. Friedrich Nietzsche said, “He who �ights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.” The most brutal prison to escape can be one’s mind.
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he suggested that to enter the kingdom of God, we must become trusting like a child. Otherwise, complex adult issues like those mentioned will paralyze us. To the pure, everything is pure. When truth, simplicity and purity come, dragon people can’t see good or God anymore. They lose trust in God, and they lose their perspective. God is there, but they can’t see God at work on their behalf. Wise but trusting people see God in both the good and the bad. The mature Christ followers and people see God in pleasures and palaces and the barnyards and stables of life. When wise people follow a star and �ind a stable, they look for God in the stable and �ind Him. That takes seeing things the way God sees them by looking through the eyes of a child. God chose to become a baby, not a “razzle, dazzle” form of a king, politician or entertainer. But, given time, that baby proved more potent than the whole Roman Empire. John Maxwell wrote about this truth from a writer
penned many years ago. Read on: “A century ago, men were following with bated breath the march of Napoleon and waiting feverishly for news of the war. And all the time, while in their own homes, babies were being born. But who could think about babies? Everyone was thinking about battles. “In one year, there stole into the world a host of heroes. Gladstone was born in Liverpool, England, and Tennyson at Somersby. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Massachusetts. The same day of that same year, Charles Darwin made his debut at Shrewsbury. Abraham Lincoln drew his first breath in Old Kentucky, and the birth of Felix Mendelssohn enriched music in Hamburg. “But nobody was thinking about babies. Everybody was thinking about battles. Yet, which of the battles of 1809 mattered more than the babies born in 1809? When a wrong wants righting, or a truth wants teaching, or a continent wants opening, God sends a child to do it.” So, what does “childlike” look like for
us adults and teenagers? “Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to �igure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go. God’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume you know everything, Run to God, not from God.” Proverbs 3:5-7. This 2022, birth the baby of a personal reset. Don’t allow current events to rob you of the awe and wonder of life. The year is new, why not you too.
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