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Thursday, December 10, 2009
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Thanksgiving and more
Sorry for the brief hiatus. This is week ten of the quarter, which means that everything is coming down to the wire. The rough draft of my final paper for my research methods class was due today (or so I thought), and we each had 15 minute individual presentations. We also had an 8-10 page paper due for my ethics class today. Needless to say, these assignments made for a busy holiday!
I enjoyed my Thanksgiving! Working in retail, it was a busy weekend! I was happy to get paid overtime on Thanksgiving Day and allow my coworkers with family in the area to spend the day with them. A friend of mine picked me up after work to take me to her house for Thanksgiving dinner. I wasn’t the only one who was late, so I didn’t feel awkward and enjoyed the food! We played a few different games afterward, then enjoyed a round of dessert. The company was great, the food was outstanding, and it was my best option if I had to be away from my family.
The rest of the weekend was just as productive and fun: a lot of working, a lot of schoolwork, and the perfect dosage of spending time with friends. Really, I have so much to be thankful for, and my friends are one such category! I am continually impressed with their hospitality and service to one another and to me. Things are not always perfect, and we certainly have conflict, but I truly appreciate their commitment to love me as part of the body of Christ. It’s quite humbling!
Today after class, I had the opportunity to chat with a classmate about our research experiences. We weren’t in the same discussion groups throughout the quarter, nor the same presentation group today, so she asked me to summarize the missiological implications of the research I did. My research was in a retail setting, and my conclusion was that we all have to treat whoever is in front of us like a person. Our culture and society push us to view people for what they’re worth in terms of what they can do for me. Employees at any corporation we encounter, whether it’s retail, a restaurant, a customer service call center, or anywhere are more than the role they represent to us right now. The “idiot” mailman who stuffs all my mail into the box and bends my photos has a wife and children at home. The “annoying” customer has had a lot of stress at work recently. The “lazy” group member for my class has been sick a lot this quarter and can’t keep up with the reading. These are people, set in families and social systems and who have lives outside of whatever role they are performing for me right now. The moment I lose sight of that and reduce them to “a server” or “a poor performer” is the moment I treat them as less than human, and this is a sin. They deserve the same dignity and respect that anyone I love deserves, whether they are serving my needs or not. Regardless of his or her ability to succeed in a role or a position, each person I come into contact with each day deserves to be truly seen and acknowledged as a person. That is the way I have failed to treat others the way I would like to be treated and have insulted the God whose image they were created in.
I enjoyed my Thanksgiving! Working in retail, it was a busy weekend! I was happy to get paid overtime on Thanksgiving Day and allow my coworkers with family in the area to spend the day with them. A friend of mine picked me up after work to take me to her house for Thanksgiving dinner. I wasn’t the only one who was late, so I didn’t feel awkward and enjoyed the food! We played a few different games afterward, then enjoyed a round of dessert. The company was great, the food was outstanding, and it was my best option if I had to be away from my family.
The rest of the weekend was just as productive and fun: a lot of working, a lot of schoolwork, and the perfect dosage of spending time with friends. Really, I have so much to be thankful for, and my friends are one such category! I am continually impressed with their hospitality and service to one another and to me. Things are not always perfect, and we certainly have conflict, but I truly appreciate their commitment to love me as part of the body of Christ. It’s quite humbling!
Today after class, I had the opportunity to chat with a classmate about our research experiences. We weren’t in the same discussion groups throughout the quarter, nor the same presentation group today, so she asked me to summarize the missiological implications of the research I did. My research was in a retail setting, and my conclusion was that we all have to treat whoever is in front of us like a person. Our culture and society push us to view people for what they’re worth in terms of what they can do for me. Employees at any corporation we encounter, whether it’s retail, a restaurant, a customer service call center, or anywhere are more than the role they represent to us right now. The “idiot” mailman who stuffs all my mail into the box and bends my photos has a wife and children at home. The “annoying” customer has had a lot of stress at work recently. The “lazy” group member for my class has been sick a lot this quarter and can’t keep up with the reading. These are people, set in families and social systems and who have lives outside of whatever role they are performing for me right now. The moment I lose sight of that and reduce them to “a server” or “a poor performer” is the moment I treat them as less than human, and this is a sin. They deserve the same dignity and respect that anyone I love deserves, whether they are serving my needs or not. Regardless of his or her ability to succeed in a role or a position, each person I come into contact with each day deserves to be truly seen and acknowledged as a person. That is the way I have failed to treat others the way I would like to be treated and have insulted the God whose image they were created in.
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