During a normal work day, my maintenance boss really motivates me to get work done, and my IT boss is there to help me figure out what to do about IT problems. They both took the week off. First day on the job I started three things on the long todo list and all of them got stuck in the mud with problems I couldn't immediately solve. The next two days, same thing. By Thursday I started thinking about how you're supposed to handle when nothing goes right, and I remembered the "How To Handle Trouble" class our church teaches during the six week electives courses they teach. You first see God in the problem. The action items which come about from a Biblical view of trouble is that you need to understand what God is teaching you through the situation, yours and other people's mistakes, and how God wants you to use that to glorify Him in the response.
So what did I learn? Checking out the situation ahead of time, patience and time in planning, and starting the day off with the right perspective. God is in control and will be glorified with or without me. If I submit to what HE wants me to do and not what I feel like, then I can enjoy the glorifying plan for which He is using me.
At Bible study this week, we hit up the Apostle Paul's teaching about woman's hair styles. Borrriiiiiing. After putting 15 minutes of thought into all the ways we DON'T need to submit and be humbled in today's world (since Paul apparently wasted a bunch of time witting down how we should be focused on giving UP our rights) we landed on the topic of literal vs. figurative commands in the bible, like the "holy kiss" scripture for example. There's alot of cultures these days who still practice a greeting kiss among dudes. And yes ma'am, the French do kiss. Perhaps one day your husband will demonstrate.
Ryan totally popped John's personal space bubble.
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