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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 1271: Overshadowed

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“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.”

I’ve been struggling on what to write today with it being the 50th remembrance of the assassination of President Kennedy. Instead of creating something new, I am going to begin with quoting today’s “Daily Bread” devotion as I thought it was so good that it deserves the extra reading.

“The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy stunned people around the globe 50 years ago today. The day after the shooting, an article in The Times (London) spoke of the reverberations being felt throughout world financial markets. It carried the headline, ‘All Other Events Overshadowed by US Tragedy.’ 

There are times in our lives when a death, a tragedy, or a sudden turn of events eclipses everything else. It happened to an unmarried young woman who was told that she would become the mother of the promised Messiah, God’s Son.  When she asked how this could happen, the angel Gabriel said, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you.”

When we think of being overshadowed, we many times think of terrible events like what we remember today.  But what God’s Word tells us in the birth of Jesus is that He and the Holy Spirit’s overshadowing can also bring glorious and wondrous things to our lives. The question in our own lives is whether we will allow His light into our darkest places and moments so that He may shine in and through us?

Reference: Luke 1:26-38 (New Living Translation)