Archive for November, 2006
Click the title of this post to be taken to the audio player below. You must listen to this quick mp3 and I guarantee it will put you in the Christmas Spirit. Listen ALL the way through. It only gets better as it progresses, and the ending note is amazing. It almost brought tears to my eyes.
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In other news (and something to read as your song is playing)…A lot of us are getting winter weather! Right now in Dallas it is 72 but is supposed to drop to the 30s in the next hour or so! We are under a Winter Storm Warning for 1/4″ ice AND 1-2″ of snow tomorrow. I love work, and I can work from home…but snow days just rock!
Enjoying the song?
::Edit::
Just in the last hour hour and fifteen minutes, it has dropped 20 30 degrees!
So it now day 8 of 42 on Wellbutrin. Today was my first dose of 300mg versus the 150mg I was taking last week. The first few days I felt really tired and spacey on it (and it’s a stimulant, so I should have been more awake!) and kind of dizzy, but nothing too bad. I am waiting for the appetite-suppressant effect to kick in…
Maybe it was the double dose but today was the first day I noticed a huge difference in the way I felt. At the risk of sounding corny, I actually felt … SUNNY … today. It was weird, but that was the only word that popped in my mind all day. Side effects have changed a little bit…the stimulant part is kicking in as I was seriously CRACKED OUT several times today. It was like I had 10 shots of espresso or something (and I don’t drink coffee much anymore so that’s a huge thing) – I was really hyper and weird, but a? least Chris found it to be entertaining. It would come and go in waves of spastic-crazy-psycho-lady to normal-I-keep-going-to-bed-really-late feelings. A few headaches that come and go, but really nothing too extreme.
So that’s the story so far. How are YOU doing today?
over the holiday, i read two great books – the starbucks experience: 5 principles for turning ordinary into extraordinary and you don’t need a title to be a leader: how anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference.
in the leader book, one of the phrases that has stuck with me is “obligation or opportunity.” so many things in our routine, day-to-day tasks we often deem as obligation: returning emails, answering the phone, responding to messages, interruptions by colleagues…the list could go on forever. one of the ways we can lead (to positively influence) in our lives is by changing our perspective on those mundane things.
instead of looking at them as obligations, try viewing them as opportunities to positively influence someone. next time your phone rings when you’re in the middle of something, think about going above and beyond what that person is going to ask of you. blow them away with your kindness.
obligation? or opportunity. you can decide, regardless of your title or position in your career or your life.
i wonder this. so many churches, big and small, all over our country (and in my traveling experience, yes, just our country…perhaps our canadian neighbors? i dont know…) seem to shove food down our hungry little throats.
i understand there is personal responsibility, and aside from that, are we feeding our culture’s hungry consumeristic monster as well as the people who walk in the doors of our church??
let’s think about it.? in the churches i have visited in the last four years, we either give away or sell the following:
- donuts
- candy (available at childrens/youth services)
- sodas
- lattes, mochas, smoothies
- orange juice (the bad, concentrated kind)
- bear claws
- pizza, pizza, pizza
- more soda
- more candy
- more coffee
this isn’t about whether or not church can make you fat.? but are we (generally speaking)?setting an example on how we should care for our bodies and/or spend our money by making these things so readily available?
we say sacrifice your latte and help pay for our building yet we sell you a four dollar latte. we say don’t sleep around and exercise and get sleep but we’ll stuff you full of krispy kreme.? we say teach your kids the importance of a dollar, don’t spoil them, yet we give them $2 before their children’s program so they can buy a soda and a nerds rope and some reeses?
i say this of course after eating far too many christmas cookies and drinking two cups of peppermint hot cocoa…
what do you think?
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