Resourcefulness in Local Marginalized Communities
Resourcefulness in Local Marginalized Communities
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Resourcefulness is the ability to find creative ways to solve problems. When faced with challenges, look outside the box for solutions. Confront adverse circumstances with ingenuity and passion. See what others do and find out how to connect the dots to embrace new opportunities.
One benefit of resourcefulness that may be surprising, is that it enhances self-development, self-improvement, and self-worth.
Resourcefulness is using our wits, proper judgment and common sense to solve problems and meet challenges. It is using initiative in difficult situations and involves inventing, creating, imagining, synthesizing, evaluating, classifying, observing and analyzing solutions to overcome the trials that life throws at us.
Resourcefulness is a mindset, and to be successful, you must embody characteristics such as discipline, dedication, hard work, confidence, and willingness. If you don’t know the answer, you must find out how to get it.
As Ernest Hemingway said, “Now is Not the time to think of what you DO NOT have. Think of what you CAN DO, with what there is.”
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Proverbs 31 shows women, as the epitome of resourcefulness. She is described as a woman of excellence in whom her family can place their full confidence. She is a hard-working woman who takes initiative and possesses great strength and courage.
She is resourceful with whatever is placed in her hand, skilled in using wool and flax to make clothing for her household. She is a woman of influence, managing her household, servants, money, and land well.
Proverbs 31 women are both shrewd sellers and shrewd buyers, and they plan, in order to avoid unforeseen calamities. Most importantly, they fear the Lord, and the text says such women are more valuable than rubies.
Resourceful leaders find a way to achieve their goals. They are skilled in thinking creatively, generating ideas, and identifying alternative ways of accomplishing any given activity. Resourceful people are imaginative and can visualize how to achieve the seemingly impossible. Determination enables them to stay the course and emerge victorious.
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Another example of a resourceful person, was Thebez— in Judges 9:53.
With one targeted drop of a piece of an upper millstone from the top of a strong tower, the woman of Thebez saved the lives of all the inhabitants of her city.
Their adversary, the heartless, power-hungry King Abimelech was about to set fire to the door of the tower—just as he had recently done in the city of Shechem, where he’d burned 1,000 men and women alive as they sought refuge in a temple.
This woman had no delegated authority, and she had no time to seek permission or approval from higher-ups for her proposed actions. She used her resourcefulness, and threw down the millstone piece that crushed Abimelech’s skull.
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