Wednesday

Today is Administrative Professionals Day.  My boss surprised me with a beautiful plant and a card in which he wrote that our organization is “blessed that I am the foundation for such a wonderful team”.  I have never worked for a boss that used the word blessed – I am so thankful that the Lord has me at a job where everyone is a Christian.  We pray for each other, uplift one another and pray for our clients as well.  I am truly blessed.

Here’s some trivial “overthinking” for my sisters in class to get a kick out of .  First of all, I was stumbling over my words because I just don’t know how to “receive” anything well.  My mind kept saying “just say thank you”.  And then after everyone was gone I found myself looking at the words on the card and feeling so warm and fuzzy that someone wrote those things.  In class we’ve learned about Love Languages and words are a big thing to some people.  I’ve never put much stock in what people say I always watch for what they “do or don’t do”.  Well, today I realized that words mean alot more to me than I’ve ever realized. Maybe it’s because I’ve been here a year and I know that I can  trust the people I work with so now their words have meaning to me.  Strange but true. I’m safe here.

The moral here is that if you have someone in your life that is hard to deal with (like me) you must first earn their trust before they will ever hear the words you speak. I wish I could have had this revelation years ago but alas – I’m thankful that I’m having it today.

Sometimes we must earn the right to speak and be heard. Sylvia Rogers