Jackie Hudson wrote a book entitled: Doubt: A Road to Growth. She writes: “Early in my career, I had a boss who held to numerous spoken and unspoken rules. One was that I needed to have my lights out by 11:00 p.m. so I wouldn’t be tired on the job the next day. His house was not far from mine, and if he noticed my lights on after 11, I heard about it the next day. I remember my first compliment from him—a full year after I’d been on the job. I’d been given a project and I worked night and day to make it perfect and thus win his approval. The day of the event, he wanted all the other employees to arrive an hour early to help with preparations. Even though I explained that it wouldn’t be necessary, he insisted. After all the employees stood around for an hour with nothing to do, the program began. I couldn’t have been more pleased with the event—the project was flawless. Afterward, my boss walked up to me, looked down at the floor, and out of his mouth came those long awaited words, ‘Well done, Ms. Hudson.’ My year in that environment brought on a remarkable response—rebellion. I was hardly growing in grace. Grace is fertile soil. Grace focuses on what God is and what He has done and takes the focus off ourselves and yet it is so easy to think that we need to do something to
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