Posted by: alece | February 3, 2008

flotsam and jetsam

It’s Sunday morning. 11:11 AM.

  • Our new interns joined us for their very first Thrive staff meeting. We rolled out our ministry-wide mile marker goals: three things we’ll be working together to accomplish by the end of the year. If our goals were easy to achieve, we wouldn’t need God or each other. Good thing we set goals that are enormously challenging then…
  • I taught my first Missions class of the new year. When one of the interns asked me to repeat something so she could be sure she wrote it down correctly, my heart about skipped a beat.
  • Some friends came to visit, and I took a day off to spend time with them. It was a wonderful treat.
  • Niel and I drove to the nearest city, Pietermaritzburg, to watch a movie yesterday. “The Bucket List” had me in tears.
  • I finished reading “Water for Elephants” late last night. Very unique and interesting book.
  • I emailed all our staff and interns this picture with the note: Please see the attached memo regarding a new policy we are implementing, effective immediately. Only a few staff members even answered–and not a single intern. I think they’ve all misplaced their sense of humor.


  • This is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long while.
  • February started. I’m still struggling to wrap my mind around that simple fact.

Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Highlights from your week?

Responses

Yeah, I didn’t respond to the new policy email because I was waiting for the email telling me when I could go home! :) It was a funny one… :)

the picture wouldn’t show up :(

that is a very cool video.

i can’t believe its’ 2/3/08 either.

cool.

I clicked where the picture was suppposed to be and a message about a clock with no hands came up - but no image. Now I am curious.

Highlight from my week: Two members of our church got married yesterday. Peter and Wendy (like the Barrie story). It was good. Oh, and all my home school supplies are ready for next Wednesday. Yay!

AGH! That video is awesome. I would have loved to have been a part of that.

i think i fixed the picture. try, try again.

Ha! I love it! :-)

Can you imagine what the world was like before the invention of the clock?

ok, saw the picture

AND

i was eating and had to stop and let you know… it’s superbowl time (the girls are having a chick flick party upstairs) i made a sandwich sat down to eat it, looked at it and thought, how can i eat this from the outside? i got up and to cut it in half.

11:11.
Good time right there.
I loved that video, by the way. It was great. I sent it to Lindsey Bone to be enthralled by.

Also, I showed her the Filet ‘o fish and she laughed for a long, long, long, long time.
She showed others, too.
Hehe…

Highlights…
I’m full of joy.
it’s warm in Missouri.
Gas is cheaper in Missouri (than WI)
Eating shredded wheat without milk is just as yummy. Who would have thought?

haha! i love it that you had to cut your sandwich, yeller. i’ve made a convert out of you!

rhubarb, i’m glad you shared the joy with bone. i can’t wait to meet that girl someday. i think i’d like her. i stared at “i’m full of joy” a really long time.

Great stuff! i would have loved to have been there for that GCS moment. And the clock idea was awesome.

I love that you were impacted when the intern was wanting your exact quote… for some reason… that just gave me chills to read…

Hey. That video is that coolest thing ever ever ever. I love artsy thins like that. I think I will ask Daniel to do it today in our living room. -Kristi

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