Thanks, Christina for writing yesterday about business vs. personal. I think the blurred line only gets more blurry when you are working in a Christian context. Because your business is also mission, and also community, and also the Body of Christ, and also family. All those things together make for a pretty crazy mix of business/personal. I have to echo the thoughts of our mom on this one… personal goes with you wherever you are. You bring ‘personal’ to every meeting, every encounter with a student, every board decision, and every pink slip. You bring personal because that is how we are made: personal, relational, human. I think God intended it this way. But, it sure is difficult.
Entirely unrelated (and mostly because I already have it written and it’s an easy copy/paste job), I wanted to share something from awhile back. I spoke to two different sets of high school students a couple weeks ago on Nehemiah 8 (per my mother’s brilliant suggestion) in an attempt to discuss joy and suffering. I did some writing before/after and here some excerpts:
When I stand up against Truth …
(sin secret and hidden) spouting
nonsense words and misplaced
SHAME fills me and
too weak to stand
destroyed and scattered like
chaff, swept up by the hungry wind
and I fall faster
fear, though I know its true place
surrounds the pieces
of what was once complete
the feeling that i have failed
again
that the world has failed
again
…
is only overcome by the
it is overcome by the
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MUSINGS IN THE MIDST 