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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 2886: Thy Will Be Done

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“Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”

As we rise this morning, here in the United States, it is our Presidential Election Day.  It only comes once every four years, but in these days the election cycle runs continuously it seems.  So, by the time it is Election Day, we are so ready for it to all be over and decided.  What we know this year is that the outcome may not be decided by tonight and we may be waiting just a little longer than usual.  What we also know is that across our country there are many millions of people who will be exercising their faith and praying for the outcome.  It would be fascinating to see how God tallies up those prayers, but let’s be thankful that He isn’t about answering prayers on popularity or polling standards.  God answers prayers without favoritism so that when we pray for a binary outcome we desire, like, “Please Lord, let _________ win this election!” there are multiple answers He can give us:

  1. Yes, now
  2. Yes, later
  3. No, now
  4. No, later
  5. No, never

But, when we pray as we are instructed with always qualifying our prayers with, “Thy will be done”, our prayers are always answered in the affirmative because if our will is truly His will, then we can be assured that our prayers have been heard and answered as they should have been.

So, our challenge will be as Believers, to say our prayers, but to accept whatever the outcome as “God’s will”, as “unlikable” as the result might be.  He gives us Romans 8:28 for a time such as this so that we know that all things work together for our good, if we only truly believe and truly surrender to His will!  I personally know, being very involved in the activity of politics (I believe Believers need to be at the table) how hard this is and it may be that I will be tested against my own words.  But if that is so, then that is what I/we must accept, or I/we are telling God with our actions, that His will is not acceptable to us.  Note:  that, is not a place where any of us want to go.  So, let’s pray into God’s will to be done and rest assured He has this already all figured out.

Reference: Matthew 6: 9 (New Living Translation)