Doing Small Things...

Today I'm thinking about all the small things I do everyday...or strive to do everyday.  Things like hugs, smiles, encouragement and love.   Lately, when I talk to God, I ask, "what can I do for You today"?  The feeling I've been getting (aka God's response to my prayer) is to Be Kind and Serve Others.  So, I'm listening, God!  I'm consciously working on it everyday.  

My encouragement for you today is to find something to laugh about!  We've had a lot more laughter in our house lately and I've taken notice.  It changes things.  Silly accents and crazy dancing are part of the evenings and it makes them memorable.  I hope you are finding something to laugh about too.

Proverbs 17:22 (NLT)

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.

Until Next Time,

Jackie

Scripture Sunday: Comparison Steals My Joy

I've been dealing with some feelings this week of jealousy and comparison.  I hate those kinds of feelings and they can bring you down quickly if you let them.  I feel so much more at peace when I put the feelings aside and go to the Word.  My scripture today is Galatians 6:4.  If you have been dealing with some of those feelings as well, I hope you also find some peace.

Galatians 6:4 (NLT)

Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won't need to compare himself with someone else.

Today I'm linking up with the Sunday Community at Jumping Tandem.  I hope you'll visit there for more inspiration!

Until Next Time,

Jackie

"Them's Fightin' Words" and Thoughts on Work Life...

I like Friday, don't you?  This Friday is the end of another busy week...they are all busy, though, aren't they?  Where I work, it's quiet.  Veeerrrryyy Quiet!  It's an old house on campus and we don't get a lot of traffic.  It's nice.  However, today, two of my co-workers got into an argument.  It doesn't happen often here...like in other places I've worked...the arguing and the tension.  We all work pretty well together and I'm thankful for that.  There had been some misunderstandings and miscommunication and today they let it loose...2 feet from my desk...minutes after I got to work.  It's out in the open now and they've explained their sides.  Time to move on...

I think it was about 15 years ago when I worked for another department on campus.  It was a dysfunctional place...or so I thought.  There was a lot of tension and not a lot of team building within the department.  I hated every minute of that job and went home many nights in tears.  I'm thankful for that job though.  I learned a LOT.  I learned to not take things personally.  I also learned how I did and didn't want to treat the people I work with.  I was meant to have that job...I can see that now.  When I left that department to take another job, I had a little talk with myself about my work life and how I was going to move forward.  I was not going to make the same mistakes or let people treat me the way I had been treated and I certainly wasn't ever going to treat people in that way either.   The number one lesson I took away from that job was that I wasn't going to be so invested in my work life that it interfered with my home life.  I wasn't ever going to go home in tears because of anger or frustration.  What I WAS going to do was go to work with a good attitude, do my job to the best of my ability, ask for help when I needed it and serve others whenever I could.  

15 years later and on mornings like this one I'm reminded...Attitude is everything!

 

Until Next Time,

Jackie