We love resurrection type stories.
Ex. Home Depot. In 1978 Arthur Blank worked for Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers. Bernard Marcus was CEO of Handy Dan and Blank was vice president of finance when both were fired as part of an internal power struggle.
Fired. Devastated? In 1978, Blank co-founded Home Depot with Marcus with a vision of one-stop shopping for the do-it-yourselfer. The store revolutionized the home improvement business with its warehouse concept and Blank and Marcus became billionaires as a result.
Ex. Mark Cuban. Scrapped through college, living in a 3 BR apt with five other guys. Started a software company, Micro Solutions – three people, $84,000 in the bank. , doing everything right. Receptionist took checks that were supposed to be mailed. She whited out the payee and wrote in her own name. She took $82,000 of the $84,000 they had. He explained everything to his creditors and asked for more time. They agreed.
He chose Indiana’s Kelley School of Business without even visiting the campus because “it had the least expensive tuition of all the business schools on the top 10 list”. He moved to Texas and took a job as a salesman for a software company, but was fired. He started a company, MicroSolutions, One of the company’s largest clients was Perot Systems. The company grew to more than $30 million in revenue, and in 1990 for $6 million. From there he went on to start new companies and sold them until today, he is best known for Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team.
Ex. Kurt Warner – bagging groceries – Super Bowl winning QB and now Hall of Fame.
The resurrection narrative is the blooming of the lily in Springtime. It is the death of one beanstalk that leaves only seeds, which, when planted, sprout forth rows of beanstalks. It is the withering and death of a sunflower that becomes a bird-feeder.
It is the birth of a baby from the pain of pregnancy and labor.
Resurrection narrative is the hope of every person who embraces recovery from addiction. That I may not be restored to the person I was before addiction took control, but that I may become the person I was created to be. Not going back, but going forward.