Mail Merge

I'd never done a microsoft office mail merge before yesterday.

I'd tried twice before and was never successful.

But I had a deadline. This mailer had to go out the next day. It had to get done now. This mail merge had to work.

I thought about how I had struggled through one of these earlier in the year, how I'd pulled from every trick I'd ever learned about Microsoft Word, only to get to the end and be told my source document was bad, or something equally as cryptic. My knowledge of this program did not carry me then...

But this had to work today. It had to.

"God," I silently prayed. "This has to work. I trust you with it."

The mailer was successfully completed in 20 minutes.

Moral?

"Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act." - Psalm 37:5

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6

Humility...

I've been working at my church for 2 months now. Rightnow, we're having a Staff Retreat. It's been fun. We've talked about funny stuff. We've played get-to-know-you games. We've eaten Chinese out of big aluminum containers.

And now the whole staff - and keep in mind we're a bunch of secretaries and facilities guys - has been asked to critique how our pastors do what they do on Sunday Mornings.

I'm 24. I've attended the church for a 2 years. I've worked at the church for 2 months.

Beyond that, I'm proud.

And my pastors want my input on what they've been doing for decades.

My pastors are humble.