Understanding Leadership

From the book, "Understanding Leadership" by Tom Marshall:

The importance of remembering lies in our tendency to absolutize the present. If things are going well, I may blithely assume they will always be like that and fall into presumption or carelessness. If things are going badly, I can easily feel they will always be like that and fall into despair. Therefore, in the good times we probably need to remember the bad times and certainly in the bad times we need encouragement of rehearsing the good times.

In your need, turn towards the body for its prayers.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:7-10