I woke up this morning to my phone alarm going off. This was one of those calls from an employee that I appreciated. I was accidentally sleeping in, and she was calling with a question. The problem was, I was dreaming that I was at the church babysitting. So, as far as I knew, I was awake. When I awoke, I realized it had all been a very bad dream. The entire community had come, and there weren't enough childcare providers.

Well, we got to the church in time. One of the workers did not show. wow. what's new? Church volunteers,employees, etc. Does no one take their position in life seriously? I could never just not show up. Call someone. Let someone know. Preferrably ahead of time. Doesn't anyone take responsibility anymore.

Well, just another thing to teach my children. When you have a job to do, do it. if you can't, find someone else to do it. take responsibility. step up.

There is so much more to life than what we see. Service is so important. Serving with a willing heart is even more important. God certainly does love a cheerful giver. So, how do we teach our kids to serve and give of themselves cheerfully? By doing it ourselves. And certainly when I am frustrated with the worker not showing, I can not complain, but patiently practice grace. My kids will learn more about serving others through what they see me doing.

So, the lesson for the week:

Thinking about others, and what we can do for them. and practicing grace. so forgive me folks for "complaining" about the worker not showing.

now I will go and practice.

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I woke up this morning to my phone alarm going off. This was one of those calls from an employee that I appreciated. I was accidentally sleeping in, and she was calling with a question. The problem was, I was dreaming that I was at the church babysitting. So, as far as I knew, I was awake. When I awoke, I realized it had all been a very bad dream. The entire community had come, and there weren't enough childcare providers.

Well, we got to the church in time. One of the workers did not show. wow. what's new? Church volunteers,employees, etc. Does no one take their position in life seriously? I could never just not show up. Call someone. Let someone know. Preferrably ahead of time. Doesn't anyone take responsibility anymore.

Well, just another thing to teach my children. When you have a job to do, do it. if you can't, find someone else to do it. take responsibility. step up.

There is so much more to life than what we see. Service is so important. Serving with a willing heart is even more important. God certainly does love a cheerful giver. So, how do we teach our kids to serve and give of themselves cheerfully? By doing it ourselves. And certainly when I am frustrated with the worker not showing, I can not complain, but patiently practice grace. My kids will learn more about serving others through what they see me doing.

So, the lesson for the week:

Thinking about others, and what we can do for them. and practicing grace. so forgive me folks for "complaining" about the worker not showing.

now I will go and practice.

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Posted by Anonymous

Sometimes people mean to come, but forget. I do that. I just forget what day of the week it is or something. Or forget to check my calendar. I am really bad at this. I forget dentist appointments, parties, MOPS schedules--basically anything I don't do on a regular, at least weekly basis, I am in danger of forgetting. Once I forgot to take Jon to a birthday party and he was SO disappointed. He said, "I wait and I wait, and I never get invited, and then I finally got invited and you forgot to take me!" He was in about third grade. It totally broke my heart.

Once I think I even forgot to take a meal to someone. I hardly knew them, and someone called and asked if I'd take a meal, and I said yes I would, and I think they gave me a date, but I don't remember anything more about it, except I ran into the kids from that family about nine months later and ithit me that I had never delivered their meal.

So it is really nice when people are willing to have grace for me, and I KNOW I need to have grace for others.

I am paranoid about saying I'll do things, because I am so fearful of forgetting (due to real life bad experiences). I love when somebody will call and remind me.

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