To snitch or not to snitch

If you know me, you know that I can't stand a liar. That being said, I have a moral delima. Where I work on Sundays we don't punch a clock. We just write our measly few hours on a sheet and turn them in every week. If our supervisor isn't there, it's my job to turn in the time sheets. Last week I noticed something.

If I get to work early I will hang out in the nursery until it's time for me to go upstairs (about 9:15 or 9:20). I didn't go upstairs until closer to 9:30 this past week because I needed to make sure there was another person in the nursery. When I picked up the time sheets in the afternoon, this woman's sheet said she got there at 8:30.

Here's my delimma. She lied. It's possible she's lied every week since she's been working. But these 3 little hours are the only ones she works in a week. This is my 2nd job and I am just getting by. Do I do the right thing and tell someone that she is lying? Or do I let her keep doing it because she really does need those extra few dollars?

Did I mention this is a church?

Weigh-in Wednesday

They did it again! How do Shelli Yoder all all the fine folks at the EDCT know exactly what I need to hear at exactly the right time?

I tend to be quite ambiguous in a lot of my posts because I'm still not exactly sure I want everything up here for all the world to see, but I do know that I like to write things out. Well, this speaks to my post from earlier today. A lot of stupid things beyond my control have really messed up my outlook for the next few weeks and/or months. I'm working through it. This helps.

Amid the complexities of this world, the financial concerns of the future, our relationships, our lives, it is easy to let ourselves become overwhelmed and anxious. We receive few reminders that we have all we need for this moment, right here, right now. Poet David Whyte offers us a rare prompt in the following poem to think differently. Through the unknown, may we remain open to being...enough.

ENOUGH

Enough. These few words are enough.

If not these words, this breath.

If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to the life

we have refused

again and again

until now.

Until now.

-David Whyte

Today

has been a very important day to grow and to think about wrong turns I have made in the past.

They always come back to haunt you.

I am very tired of being punished for things that are and were entirely out of my control. I hate that I, for once, have my shit together but that it's always something. I have been trying to turn that around for a year. I was well on my way to doing so - until yesterday when things began to unravel, then of course things fell completely apart today... Unfortunately for me there is nothing I can do to reverse the situation, I just have to grin and bear it.

Again, I vow to turn things around. Everything I do is for me - not anyone else. If it takes me picking up the pieces from someone elses trash - so be it.

I LOVE Stupid People

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Lady,

I'm sorry that you are sad. I know he lived a long life and I know he was sick. I know you knew it was coming...but so soon? I wish I knew what to do for you. It's okay to let it out. It's okay to be sad. Don't feel like you have to be the strong one and hold everyone together. You don't. Everyone else will be okay, just like you will. Continue to watch over everyone but most of all watch out for yourself. He will do the same. I love you lady and am here for you. Please let me know what I can do to help.

(I'm sure I can make some sort of mean casserole....isn't that what you're supposed to do?)

Happy Election Day

I have been pretty quiet this election season... I've had everything political shoved down my throat for, I don't know, the past 3.5 - 4 years. So I took a break. Regardless I know that it's my duty as an American to exercise my right to vote -and that may be the only exercising I do all week so I better do it! If you're in Alabama and don't know where you're registered go to Alabama Votes to get all the information you may need and even a sample ballot. I hope everyone goes out to day and gets this job done...and may the best man win (of course we all know who that is!!)