We really do need to get some T-shirts made up.
We have two designs in mind. The first is based on what we're called by some of the people who live at the Motel. Ya know what it's like trying to remember names. Well try it drunk or stoned. (That's not advice. I'm just sayin').
So one person typically leaves Dinner each week by calling out, "Thank you very much, RuthandallyouRuths." So we want to make some shirts that say "Ruth and all you Ruths".
The other one we're thinking about is "I got banned from the property."
C.L. earned hers this week, by being fired. She works for the Motel doing cleaning and showing rooms to people who are interested. She's also Keeper of the Keys for the Sherwood Room where we have Dinner and church.
Last week, the management mistakenly got the idea that somebody had left open the fire door at the back of the room and stormed off to rip a strip off C.L. She was fired and had her keys taken away.
The management then gave her keys to the guy who does maintenance and told him to make sure that there was coffee made for Dinner on Wednesday. Problem is, he's never used a big percolator before and had no idea how. He went around the property asking people if they knew how to work the thing and nobody did. He'd have had to ask C.L.
That is, if the management hadn't been told by some family members that maybe firing C.L. wasn't such a sharp thing to do and that maybe he should hire her back.
We're increasingly grateful for these words of wisdom coming from some more objective folks.
Not sure why these things need to keep happening. If you buy into certain schools of thought on the sovereignty of God, there must be a reason for everything. I'm less certain.
I have a friend who calls this stuff "sand in the gears" and she says, rightly I think, that what matters is not what happens, but how we respond to it.
It's becoming far too easy to laugh and be dismissive when certain people say certain things and I'm concerned that we might fall into the 'familiarity breeds contempt' trap. We need to make sure we keep showing respect to 'those in authority over us' and to not mistake a sense of superiority for grace.
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