Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

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 275: But God

purposed worKING No Comments

While I am on vacation, I have asked friends, and encouragers of Purposed worKING to contribute. Today’s post comes from Jason Illian who is a published author and technology executive who has a passion for helping people live more purpose-driven lives.

“BUT GOD” is the most powerful phrase in the Bible. Just when we felt completely hopeless, when our relationships were beyond repair, when we made mistake after mistake and things seemed un-fixable…BUT GOD.

“Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. BUT GOD chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things–and the things that are not–to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.” – 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

“Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. BUT GOD demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:7-8

We often forget that God’s saving grace isn’t just fixated on the afterlife. It is abundantly poured out on each of us everyday. Christ didn’t die to save us from only hell–He died to save us from this ho-hum, run-of-the-mill, sin-infested existence where we run into the same problems over and over again. He died to save us from ourselves and from the daily monotony. He wants our everyday lives to have meaning and purpose.

If you are living for the weekends, God is talking to you. If you are counting the hours until work is done, God is talking to you. If you are lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, and wondering why you should get out for another day of the same old thing, God is talking to you. He isn’t dangling a carrot out in front of you for a gift that will never be experienced. He desires for you to live the exceedingly abundant life. Now. Daily.

God is bigger than our problems, no matter how large we’ve allowed them to grow. So when you feel like you’ve come to the end of your rope, when your life has officially spiraled out of control, when you feel like burying yourself in the bottle or in someone else’s bed, remember…BUT GOD.

Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:26-29, Romans 5: 7-8