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Day 1402 – My Daughter, The Doctor – Humor Unplugged

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Welcome to Day 1402 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

My Daugther, The Doctor – Humor Unplugged

Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before.

Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase wisdom and create a living legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1402 of our trek, and it is time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Humor Unplugged. Our Thursday podcast will provide a short and clean funny story to help you lighten up and live a rich and satisfying life – something to cheer you and give a bit a levity in your life.

We are told inProverbs 15:30,“A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health.” We are also encouraged in Proverbs 17:22,“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.” Consider this your vitamin supplement of cheer for today. So let’s jump right in with today’s funny which is titled…

My Daughter, The Doctor

On the way to taking her daughter Suzy to preschool one morning, Kathy, the head of gynecology at Memorial Hospital, had left her stethoscope on the rear car seat right beside little Suzy. After looking at the stethoscope for several moments, Suzy could not contain herself any longer and picked it up and began playing with it.

As Kathy watched her through the rearview mirror, she began to wonder if her little Suzy would one day be a doctor like her. Kathy could hardly contain herself as her thoughts ran wild. Quietly, she said to herself, be still, my heart, my daughter wants to follow in my footsteps and be a doctor!

Little Suzy put the small end into her ears and then looked at the round end curiously and spoke loudly into the instrument, “Welcome to McDonald’s. May I take your order?”

I hope that brought a smile to your face today. If it did, pass your smile on to someone else; we all could use a kind smile each day. Our Thursday thought is, “My doctor asked me if I had ever had a stress test? YES, I replied, It’s called LIFE!”

Here is our verse for today.

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

As you enjoy these nuggets of humor, please encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.

If you would like to listen to any of our past 1401 treks or read the Wisdom Journal, they are all available at Wisdom-Trek.com. I encourage you to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on your favorite podcast player so that each day will be downloaded to you automatically.

Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, your friend as I serve you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.

As we take this trek together, let us always:

  1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
  2. Love Unconditionally
  3. Listen Intentionally
  4. Learn Continuously
  5. Lend to others Generously
  6. Lead with Integrity
  7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain reminding you to Keep Moving Forward, Enjoy Your Journey, and Create a Great Day Everyday! See you tomorrow for Philosophy Friday!

Day 1401 – Mastering the Bible – Israel Today and the Temple of God – Worldview Wednesday

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Welcome to Day 1401 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Mastering the Bible – Israel Today and the Temple of God – Worldview Wednesday

Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1401 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday. Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today’s current events. To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word. Our focus for the next several months on Worldview Wednesday is Mastering the Bible, through a series of brief insights. These insights are extracted from a book of the same title from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew Scholars, Dr. Micheal S. Heiser. This book is a collection of insights designed to help you understand the Bible better. When we let the Bible be what it is, we can understand it as the original readers did, and as its writers intended. Each week we will explore two insights.

Mastering The Bible – Israel Today and the Temple of God

Insight Sixty-Nine: In the New Testament “Israel” Doesn’t Always Refer to the Nation or Its People

Earlier, we saw that use of the term “Israel” varied in the Old Testament. Sometimes “Israel” referred to all twelve tribes, and other times it referred to the northern kingdom of ten tribes following the fracturing of the kingdom. The variation in meaning, then, was due to politics and geography.

The New Testament also uses “Israel” in a variety of ways. Sometimes it refers to the Promised Land, the twelve tribes, or ethnic Jews. But this time, the reason is driven by theology.

The birth of the early church in the book of Acts shows us plainly that God’s people were never intended to be identified with ethnic Israel forever. Gentiles were destined for inclusion in the people of God, as was told to Abraham in Genesis 12:3. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.  Because of what Jesus did on the cross, the gentiles were included in Israel. The New Testament refers to this blending as a “mystery” in Ephesians 3:3-9. Paul makes this theology explicit in his letter to the Galatians. He begins with the original promise given to Abraham, father of Israel, as he expands this thought in Galatians 3:7-9. The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God.  What’s more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would make the Gentiles right in his sight because of their faith. God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, “All nations will be blessed through you.” So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.

Paul moves from this opening to a discussion of the law. He denies the law’s saving power and instead holds up faith in Christ. Israel’s Messiah, as the way of salvation. Then he closes his argument with language that would startle both the Jewish and gentile unbeliever in Galatians 3:25-29:

And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian. For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.

Paul couldn’t be more explicit: if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. There is one people of God.

 Insight Seventy: The People of God Are the Temple of God

Presuming they had access to the Scriptures, the Bible of the earliest Christians was the Old Testament. We have the Old Testament today, of course, but we look at it much differently than early Christians did. One reason is that we live at a time far removed from the days of Jesus, whom the early church expected would soon return. Another is that we live on the other side of the catastrophic events of AD 70, the year the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple.

One of the ways this time differential plays out is the way Christians look at Ezekiel 40-48, the fantastic prophecy of a future temple. Since the prophecy appears in the book of Ezekiel, it was written at the time (or shortly after that) Israel’s first temple, the temple of Solomon, was destroyed in 586 BC. When the Jews returned from exile, they rebuilt the temple. That second temple (with some updating by Herod) was the temple known to Jesus and the apostles. This second temple was the one destroyed in AD 70.

Many Christians today look at Ezekiel 40-48 and believe it prophesies another literal temple that will be rebuilt just before Jesus returns. No New Testament author, however, saw the prophecy that way. There are no direct quotations of Ezekiel’s prophecy in the New Testament. That isn’t surprising since the temple was still standing in the days of the New Testament writers, at least up until AD 70. But even after that date, there are no direct quotations. In Revelation, a book that most would date well into the 90s, there are allusions to an idealized temple in Revelation 21, but nothing directly deriving from Ezekiel 40-48. There’s a reason for this seemingly odd omission. In New Testament theology, believers are the temple of God. They have replaced the temple. Believers indwelt by the Spirit are now the place sanctified by the sacrificial blood of Jesus, where God’s presence dwells. This temple was made at the resurrection and not by human hands in Mark 14:58 when Christ was on trial, the priest said. “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this Temple made with human hands, and in three days I will build another, made without human hands.’”

Paul is explicit in this regard. In 1 Corinthians 3:16, he writes, Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? Here Paul speaks to the Corinthians collectively. But in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, he applies this same thinking to individual believers: Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,  for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.  Paul repeatedly emphasized that believers are the place where the presence of God dwells (cf. Romans 8:9-11; Ephesians 2:22; 2 Timothy 1:4).

For early believers, there was no need to worship at the temple—they were the temple. This was significant for a people of God that consisted of both Jews and gentiles. Had a temple been essential, gentiles would have been prohibited from worshipping God by the Jews who didn’t follow Jesus. The indwelling of the Spirit removed that obstacle.

That will conclude this week’s lesson on another two insights from Dr. Heiser’s book “Mastering The Bible.” Next Worldview Wednesday, we will continue with two additional insights. I believe you will find each Worldview Wednesday an interesting topic to consider as we build our Biblical Worldview.

Tomorrow we will continue with our 3-minute Humor nugget that will provide you with a bit of cheer, which will help you to lighten up and live a rich and satisfying life. So encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along with us tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.’If you would like to listen to any of our past 1400 treks or read the Wisdom Journal, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. I encourage you to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on your favorite podcast player so that each day’s trek will be downloaded automatically.

Thank you so much for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and, most of all, your friend as I serve you in through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.

As we take this Trek together, let us always:

  1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
  2. Love Unconditionally
  3. Listen Intentionally
  4. Learn Continuously
  5. Lend to others Generously
  6. Lead with Integrity
  7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain….reminding you to ’Keep Moving Forward,’ ‘Enjoy your Journey,’ and ‘Create a Great Day…Everyday’! See you Tomorrow!

Day 1400 – Strong Trials Strengthen Faith – Wisdom Unplugged

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Welcome to Day 1400 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Strong Trials Strengthen Faith – Wisdom Unplugged

Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1400 of our Trek, and it is time for our 3-minute mini trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little bit of additional content for today’s trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom for today. So let’s jump right in with today’s nugget:

Today’s quote is from  Katherine Workman, and it is:   Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but is like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.    

Strong Trials Strengthen Faith

I know for myself, and probably for most Christ-followers, we desire to have strong faith, but we would prefer to gain that faith through osmosis or a life of ease. Unfortunately, that is not how we learn strong faith. Just like the massive and sturdy oak tree, as with many other varieties of trees, they can only grow big and resilient through adverse conditions.   When they have to face torrential wind and rain, it not only strengthens the very fiber of the tree, it also causes their roots to be driven deep into the soil so it can tap into the life-sustaining water supply.  Contrast this to a tomato plant that may thrive in a hothouse, but when exposed to any harsh weather or natural elements, it would soon be destroyed.  If you earnestly desire to have strong faith, then you must be willing to not only accept the trials of life, but look forward to them with joy. So ask yourself, do you desire to be a tomato plant which under ideal conditions may last for a short season, or do you desire to stand like a mighty oak which continues to grow to reach its branches to the heavens. The tomato will last but a few months, while the oak will last several hundreds of years. Which do you choose? If you choose the mighty oak, then you must look at the hardship and trials of life as the Apostle James did in his letter to the early church, which was driven away from Jerusalem because of the severe persecution they were experiencing. James 1:2-4 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. That’s a wrap for today’s Wisdom Unplugged quote. If you would like free access to my database of over 11,000 inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of Wisdom-Trek.com. Just as you enjoy these nuggets of wisdom, encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.’ If you would like to listen to any of our past 1399 treks or read the Wisdom Journal, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. I encourage you to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on your favorite podcast player so that each day’s trek will be downloaded automatically.

Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, I am your friend as I serve you in through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal each day.

As we take this Trek of life together, let us always:

  1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
  2. Love Unconditionally
  3. Listen Intentionally
  4. Learn Continuously
  5. Lend to others Generously
  6. Lead with Integrity
  7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain….reminding you to ’Keep Moving Forward,’ ‘Enjoy your Journey,’ and ‘Create a Great Day…Everyday’! See you tomorrow for Worldview Wednesday!

Day 1399 – A Prayer for the Weary – Meditation Monday

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Welcome to Day 1399 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

A Prayer for the Weary – Meditation Monday

Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1399 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday. Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy. For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word and in prayer. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body. As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind. 

So many people are weary with life. Before the pandemic, we were rushing from one activity to another. Over the past couple of months, we have become exhausted trying to adjust to a life of social distancing and coping with the ever-changing scenario. Before we know it, we will be back to a life of hustle once again. Our lifestyles are wearisome. This predicament is as old as humankind. Today let us meditate on:

A Prayer For The Weary

The wise King Solomon, after a life of phenomenal accomplishments, near the end of his life felt weary as he writes in Ecclesiastes 1:3-8 What do people get for all their hard work under the sun? Generations come, and generations go, but the earth never changes. The sun rises, and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again. The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles. Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea. Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.

How about you? Can you relate to old King Solomon? I know there are days where I feel this way. What can we do about it? Here is a prayer that I came across recently, which is fitting for us who are weary.  It is based on Matthew 11:28-30  Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

Meditate on this prayer. Lord, some weary people are listening to or reading these words. Let them hear Your invitation to come to You with their burdens and their weary souls.

Let the wives who are weary of waiting for their husbands to spiritually lead their families come to You. They are weary of carrying a burden they were never intended to carry.

Let the weary single moms and the weary single dads who are weary being both mom and dad to their children. They do the best they can but never feel they have done enough, nor do they feel they have done what they do well enough.

Let the weary mothers come to You. They are weary from caring for their children, wiping noses and bottoms, taking temperatures, drying tears, and kissing away booboos.

Let the weary husbands come to You. They are weary from trying to provide for, protect, and preserve their family and their marriages. They are weary from the criticism they receive, for not being good enough, strong enough, or wealthy enough. They are weary from working long hours and short nights, and wondering if things will ever get better.

 Let the weary Dads come to You. They are burdened by the responsibilities they feel of protecting their children, providing for their children, and leading their children along the paths You want them to go.

Let Your weary followers come to You. Those who are weary of the search for peace. Those who are weary of the struggle for contentment. Those who are weary of the battle to be holy and pure. Those who are weary of coming up short. No matter how hard they try, they just can’t seem to get it all right. Those who are weary of being told they are not good enough, right enough, or spiritual enough to please God. Those who weary of going to church to connect with You only to leave feeling they have been beaten up and beaten down. Those who are weary of feeling like a failure and wonder if You could possibly love them.

Lord, thank you for Your invitation to the weary, the burdened, and the heavy-laden. Thank You for your offer to give us rest. Thank you for inviting us to come to You. May all who are weary and burdened come to You and find rest for their souls. As we close our prayer today, let us meditate on Isaiah 40:28-35

Have you never heard?

Have you never understood?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of all the earth.

He never grows weak or weary.

No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

He gives power to the weak

and strength to the powerless.

Even youths will become weak and tired,

and young men will fall in exhaustion.

But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.

They will soar high on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary.

They will walk and not faint.

Rest in our Savior Jesus Christ today for He tells us: For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.

That is a wrap for today’s Meditation, next week; we will continue our trek on Meditation Monday as we take time to reflect on what is most important in creating our living legacy. On tomorrow’s trek, we will explore another wisdom quote. This 3-minute wisdom supplement will assist you in becoming healthy, wealthy, and wise each day. Thank you for joining me on this trek called life. Encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.’  If you would like to listen to any of the past 1398 daily treks or read the daily journal, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. I encourage you to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on your favorite podcast player so that each day will be downloaded to you automatically.

Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, I am your friend as I serve you through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.

As we take this Trek of life together, let us always:

  1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
  2. Love Unconditionally
  3. Listen Intentionally
  4. Learn Continuously
  5. Lend to others Generously
  6. Lead with Integrity
  7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain….reminding you to ’Keep Moving Forward,’ ‘Enjoy your Journey,’ and ‘Create a Great Day…Everyday’! See you tomorrow!

Day 1398 – Life After Covid-19 Part 3 – Ask Gramps

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Welcome to Day 1398 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Life After Covid-19 Part 3 – Ask Gramps

Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before.

Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase wisdom and create a living legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1398 of our trek, and it is time for our Philosophy Friday series. Each Friday, we will ponder some of the fundamental truths and mysteries of life and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time when we can “Ask Gramps.” Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, you are unable to. No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask Dad or Gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but we will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable. If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com.

Earlier this month, we addressed a question that is too broad to answer in one episode. The answer today is the third in a series that will span several weeks, which I will address on our Ask Gramps episodes, discussing the long term economic effects of the pandemic. Please make sure that you download our Friday podcast sessions to follow the complete analysis. Better yet, subscribe to Wisdom-Trek so you can gain a bit of wisdom five days a week. So here is the question…

“Hey, Gramps, I realize that after this whole Covid-19 pandemic is under control, life will take on some sort of normalcy for most people. I can’t get my mind around how life will change with so many people out of work and many businesses not being able to survive. What is your take on how life will be after Covid-19?”

Life After Covid-19 Part 3

Our analysis so far has been overall jobs in manufacturing and brick-and-mortar retail. As I mentioned the past couple of weeks, I do not have a crystal ball nor a prophetic message about life after Covid-19. That being said, I do have over 40 years of business and nearly 64 years of life experience, which helps me to see what others may not.

The core of the content today and in subsequent weeks comes from a book and companion blog written by Peter Diamandis. His book The Future Is Faster Than You Think was published in January of this year before Covid-19. Peter has recently also stated that Covid-19 would accelerate his predictions significantly. I recommend his book.

Let me once again offer some perspective. It has been said that crises don’t so much alter the course of history as accelerate changes that are already underway. Exponential technology has been disrupting traditional industries at an ever-increasing pace. The pandemic has put these changes into hyperspeed. Never have we had the opportunity to rewrite entire sectors, redefine the problems they address, and reinvent their solutions. This is a scary and also exciting time to be alive! Any time we have a disaster such as this, there is also unlimited opportunity.

The next economic sector we will explore is the restaurant industry & future dining.

Impact: In the same way that the 2008 economic crisis devastated housing, the pandemic of 2020 is laying waste to the restaurant industry.

As Phillip Stutts mentioned on a recent podcast with Peter Diamandis, “even when America fully opens the economy, 30-50% of the restaurant industry will disappear.” Think about it — if you remove 65% of a restaurant and bar’s seating to be socially distant, there is no money to be made. Even if official “social distancing” measures are relaxed, ingrained habits die hard as residual caution lingers in the public’s mind.

On the good news side, according to an AMC Global survey, 38% of polled consumers plan to support local businesses far more in the future, indicating a dramatic emphasis on community support and local dining. If you are in the restaurant or related business, or would like to be, what are some of the opportunities that will be a result of Covid-19?

Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Here are some ideas to consider.

(1) Enter KaaS, or “Kitchen-as-a-Service:” For many restaurant owners, it’s time to ditch your dine-in square footage, and focus on maximizing your kitchen to prepare “fine dining” services and deliver these to your local clients. Send out push emails every morning with the “special of the day,” and grant users easy access with a one-touch purchase. Make it easy. You could also consider delivering frozen meals that are easy to reheat.

(2) Offer White-Glove Service: Imagine restarting your restaurant with a Post-COVID mindset that accounts for the significant consumer shifts discussed above, emphasizing trust, safety, and consistency. Ironically, the post-COVID era may be the best time to start a restaurant. As Stutts explains, “You can negotiate cheap commercial rent, the labor is available, and you can be flexible with seating capacity (you [won’t] be married to the old model).”

Imagine offering a service where you not only deliver meals to your client’s home but provide in-home servers that set the table, serve the meal (with N95 masks and gloves), pour the wine, and take away the dirty plates. Turn-key and high-touch!

(3) Robotics & AI: And for the tech geeks out there, the use of AI “food recommendation” engines and autonomous delivery robots that can easily deliver within a few miles of a restaurant, should both be materializing shortly. One great example is the work done by a company called Starship Robots, accelerating your access to a KaaS provider near you. Many companies will be providing vehicles for deliveries, including some drone options. A world of possibilities is just opening up now. You must be prepared for the next wave.

Now is not the time to retreat, but to look for the opportunities that are just opening up in this new era of business.

Proverbs 24:14

In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.

We are still just scratching the surface of some of the accelerated changes that we will see in the next few years. Next Friday, we will explore more areas of transformation that is to come, specifically in commercial real estate and offices.

That is a wrap for today’s question. Join us again next Friday for another question on our Ask Gramps episode. Our next trek is Mediation Monday, where we will help you reflect on what is most important in life. So encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along on Monday for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.

If you would like to listen to any of the past 1397 daily treks or read the associated journals, they are all available at Wisdom-Trek.com. I encourage you to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on your favorite podcast player so that each day will be downloaded to you automatically.

As we take this trek together, let us always:

  1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
  2. Love Unconditionally
  3. Listen Intentionally
  4. Learn Continuously
  5. Lend to others Generously
  6. Lead with Integrity
  7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain reminding you to Keep Moving Forward, Enjoy Your Journey, and Create a Great Day Everyday! See you on Monday!