yesterday just as i was gearing up for a long needed shower, i got a text from karim. karim is a member that i support at an early morning job site cleaning offices. his arthritis was acting up and he was in too much pain so he was going home. i told him that i would go in and cover for him--that's my job. but i really didn 't want to. i wanted to have a shower! i even thought about how i could get away with not going in. but i reluctantly and full of resistance put my icky hair up into a pony tail, pulled on some clothes and headed over to the offices. the offices were getting filled up with people and i was short on time so i focused on the common areas--the kitchens and bathrooms and the main garbages and recycling. i powered through them turbo charged. working at those particular offices really works up a sweat. i don't know if it's because it's always hot there or what but when i left half an hour to forty five minutes later i was all hot and sweaty. it was time for work. no way, i thought. i'm not going to work like this. so i texted my team and told them i was having a shower before coming in. i went home and had the most satisfying shower that i've had in a long time. i mean that shower! it felt so goooooood. it was a cool water shower too. so delicious to me. when i got out i decided to do nothing to my hair and just go to work with it went. but first i fed jett at the roeders. then i went to work. my hair was still partially wet by the time my work day was over.
it was a different day at work because the board of directors was putting on a free bbq lunch. and they didn't want our help. so i spent my time being interrupted while writing out the grocery lists for monday and jimmy did a pop shop and nuria and janine cleaned and organized. the board always puts on a great bbq with grilled onions, hot dogs and hamburgers, caesar salad, potato salad, and this year they one upped themselves by having strawberry belgian waffles for dessert.
so there were tons of people everywhere and then the elevator broke yet again. colin was blocking the way to the elevator on a rolly chair and pointing them towards the stairs and giving them salt water taffy to soften the blow.
in the afternoon i met with a group downstairs. we are making a series of infomercials about cleanliness at the clubhouse to combat some problems that are chronic. the first one will be about not putting non-flushables like paper towel in the toilets. this is a major on going problem and caused a big flood which shut down part of the 3rd floor indefinitely while the restoration process is happening. anyways we came up with a hilarious idea for our video. we'll see how it all comes together..
during my morning shower i was listening to a talk by president ballard. two things that he said kind of stuck out to me. the first one was that if it's Heavenly Father's work and glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man--basically it's his work to bring salvation and happiness to us, that if this is his work, that satan's work is to bring about our endless misery and woe. he said that the sins and mistakes we make dim the light of Christ in our lives. "that is why our quest is to bask in the the Light of Christ, which brings peace, joy, and happiness". it seems so self-evident when said that way but it stuck out to me. i personally and i think the world in general could use more peace joy and happiness and way way less misery.
the second thing was he said they way to feel more peace and joy was simply to love and serve the Lord and love and serve our neighbours. the two great commandments. if we as a world of people could do those 2 things, i mean it doesn't even matter what is your religion--if you love and serve God and love and serve your fellow human beings, there would not be much misery. i was reading in 1nephi yesterday about a time when satan will have no hold on the hearts of people because of their personal righteousness. i look forward to a day like that. personally, i can work towards that day by trying to increase my own personal righteousness. i can evaluate. does this decision add to peace and love or add to misery. alma 36:28 says that the Saviour has freed his people from bondage and captivity time after time. that's true of groups of people and that's true of individuals. it's true for me. the kinds of things that keep us captive may not be actual physical chains or prison walls. i'm thankful for the daily salvation he gives me from the things that weigh me down and make me feel imprisoned. i have felt the literal lifting of weights and freedom from cords. and i've felt suddenly capable to do things that seemed like mountains to cross before. it's the gift of his grace. he makes all things possible for me. i have always loved the line in the hymn"we'll sing all hail to jesus name" that says "salvation was his song" i picture Jesus as he went about healing and teaching and blessing the people.. his actions, his life was his song. and i wonder what my song is and i hope that whatever miserable depths and dark chords my song has sunk to that because salvation was his song, that my song can reach light and glorious heights and that the whole of my life, the good and the bad, and the turning from the bad to the good again can be a praise and a worship of him. what i mean is that it's obvious that there will be less than perfect notes in my every day song, but that i hope that there will be learning and growth and that that can be beautiful and a testimony of what he can do with a single soul who although terribly terribly fallible, that turns to him and keeps returning every time. i have faith that just that--just that will to be better and that hope in the power of Jesus to save, that can be the seed of change and the heart of a beautiful partnership, an easy yoke and a lightened burden.
it was a different day at work because the board of directors was putting on a free bbq lunch. and they didn't want our help. so i spent my time being interrupted while writing out the grocery lists for monday and jimmy did a pop shop and nuria and janine cleaned and organized. the board always puts on a great bbq with grilled onions, hot dogs and hamburgers, caesar salad, potato salad, and this year they one upped themselves by having strawberry belgian waffles for dessert.
so there were tons of people everywhere and then the elevator broke yet again. colin was blocking the way to the elevator on a rolly chair and pointing them towards the stairs and giving them salt water taffy to soften the blow.
in the afternoon i met with a group downstairs. we are making a series of infomercials about cleanliness at the clubhouse to combat some problems that are chronic. the first one will be about not putting non-flushables like paper towel in the toilets. this is a major on going problem and caused a big flood which shut down part of the 3rd floor indefinitely while the restoration process is happening. anyways we came up with a hilarious idea for our video. we'll see how it all comes together..
during my morning shower i was listening to a talk by president ballard. two things that he said kind of stuck out to me. the first one was that if it's Heavenly Father's work and glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man--basically it's his work to bring salvation and happiness to us, that if this is his work, that satan's work is to bring about our endless misery and woe. he said that the sins and mistakes we make dim the light of Christ in our lives. "that is why our quest is to bask in the the Light of Christ, which brings peace, joy, and happiness". it seems so self-evident when said that way but it stuck out to me. i personally and i think the world in general could use more peace joy and happiness and way way less misery.
the second thing was he said they way to feel more peace and joy was simply to love and serve the Lord and love and serve our neighbours. the two great commandments. if we as a world of people could do those 2 things, i mean it doesn't even matter what is your religion--if you love and serve God and love and serve your fellow human beings, there would not be much misery. i was reading in 1nephi yesterday about a time when satan will have no hold on the hearts of people because of their personal righteousness. i look forward to a day like that. personally, i can work towards that day by trying to increase my own personal righteousness. i can evaluate. does this decision add to peace and love or add to misery. alma 36:28 says that the Saviour has freed his people from bondage and captivity time after time. that's true of groups of people and that's true of individuals. it's true for me. the kinds of things that keep us captive may not be actual physical chains or prison walls. i'm thankful for the daily salvation he gives me from the things that weigh me down and make me feel imprisoned. i have felt the literal lifting of weights and freedom from cords. and i've felt suddenly capable to do things that seemed like mountains to cross before. it's the gift of his grace. he makes all things possible for me. i have always loved the line in the hymn"we'll sing all hail to jesus name" that says "salvation was his song" i picture Jesus as he went about healing and teaching and blessing the people.. his actions, his life was his song. and i wonder what my song is and i hope that whatever miserable depths and dark chords my song has sunk to that because salvation was his song, that my song can reach light and glorious heights and that the whole of my life, the good and the bad, and the turning from the bad to the good again can be a praise and a worship of him. what i mean is that it's obvious that there will be less than perfect notes in my every day song, but that i hope that there will be learning and growth and that that can be beautiful and a testimony of what he can do with a single soul who although terribly terribly fallible, that turns to him and keeps returning every time. i have faith that just that--just that will to be better and that hope in the power of Jesus to save, that can be the seed of change and the heart of a beautiful partnership, an easy yoke and a lightened burden.
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