I had lunch with a young friend today. We worked together several churches ago. She was a super duper cracker jack office manager and Christian Education person! I was so fortunate to have her while I was there! She was creative, ambitious, organized, committed, had a Master's Degree and was everything anyone would want in a staff person. We got along wonderfully. I'll just call her Leah, for anonymity.
Leah and I only had one issue where our values were at odds. She was and is a "green" person, big on re-cycling. I have only one big pet peeve and that is not having cardboard boxes laying around on the floor in the church. (they tend to multiply like rabbits!) Leah always had a big cardboard box in the office in order to re-cycle all the paper. You see, I simply did not want the first thing a person saw when they opened the door to the church office to be a big box. As I recall, we had a friendly re-negotiation of the re-cycling/cardboard box dilemma. In the end, we kept both, but her cardboard box was stored under her desk out of view.
We are still quite good friends to this day, keeping in touch, and having lunch from time to time. I am almost old enough to be her mother (if I had gotten an early start) so I think our friendship is special, despite the age difference. My daughter Yo used to babysit her children.
It was good to connect with Leah today and hear about her family and their hopes and plans for the future. And I do hope that things work out exactly as she envisions!
Leah and I only had one issue where our values were at odds. She was and is a "green" person, big on re-cycling. I have only one big pet peeve and that is not having cardboard boxes laying around on the floor in the church. (they tend to multiply like rabbits!) Leah always had a big cardboard box in the office in order to re-cycle all the paper. You see, I simply did not want the first thing a person saw when they opened the door to the church office to be a big box. As I recall, we had a friendly re-negotiation of the re-cycling/cardboard box dilemma. In the end, we kept both, but her cardboard box was stored under her desk out of view.
We are still quite good friends to this day, keeping in touch, and having lunch from time to time. I am almost old enough to be her mother (if I had gotten an early start) so I think our friendship is special, despite the age difference. My daughter Yo used to babysit her children.
It was good to connect with Leah today and hear about her family and their hopes and plans for the future. And I do hope that things work out exactly as she envisions!
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