First full day of real training was today.
It was really, really, realllyyy boring.
Listening to lectures about things you already know is rough stuff.
The basic script: "This is a hammer and this is a wrench."
On the bright side we built the beds that my staff will be sleeping on, so we did do some work.
Enough complaining-- I LOVE my staff.
There should be 4 of us, but one, Laura, is from Mexico and ASP is struggling to get her work visa. For now it is just me, Nicki and Mary and we are all incredibly in sync about our expectations for this next year living in an "intentional community" as ASP has been calling it. All of a sudden tonight I have that familiar tingly feeling I get when I'm around ASP where that voice in my head starts saying "you belong here." I can't really describe it, but it's definitely a fulfilling feeling.
I am ready, willing and anxious to get to Guyan Valley and begin growing in my faith with these new friends. Though we have all consciously made a decision to create a home that is centered on openness, support and laughter, I think that our personalities would have created this atmosphere anyways. I'm feeling really excited about having a year to focus on myself, but not in the way that I feel I have been at school, with grades and tests. Instead, I'll get to focus on myself through service to others, which is a pretty rare experience and, I think, the best way to really figure out what I want from life and hopefully help my staff to do the same.
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." Phillippians 2:3-4
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