Good day at work.  Our “Choice” teams met in Franklin at Scarlett Leadership Center for some goal setting.  Then Norman, Glenn, and I met with the Board HR Committee Chair to review a full slate of Benefits Recommendations, in preparation for a full HR Committee Meeting on Monday.  Both events went well.  In earlier similar meetings, Glenn would brag on me and Carolyn to the rest of the assembly, kind of the halo effect–newest kids on the block, about how lucky the Mission is to have us, etc.  It’s been over a year now, and he continues to do this.  I’m so pleased that he feels this way, but it reminds me of high school when my teachers would commend me to the class and it made me wonder if the rest of the class would resent me.  In truth, I do a good job there, and I have a lot of great experience and knowledge and wisdom to offer.  However, I am indeed the lucky one to be working around so many selfless saints.  I am only being obedient and taking advantage of a God-sent opportunity.  Perhaps they are as well, but they have devoted their lives to this work to the detriment of their own physical and financial well-being, and I am just a relative new-comer.  I can’t brag on my co-workers enough.  Thank you Jesus for making the way.

Wore long underwear today.  Took coats that a friend from church brought for the Mission.  Let a man into the shelter to wait–wasn’t supposed to let him into that particular area, but I didn’t care.  He needed to be inside, not outside, the shelter.  We fed people stranded at the bus station–another good work that NRM does when needed.  I’m finding out neat things all the time.  Nashville Rescue Mission is on the news every night because our staff and volunteers go out and try to get people to come in off the park bench and doorway to get a warm bed and hot meal.

I meant to follow up with another friend whose son is in jail for a DUI, but forgot because I called Dad first, only to find that their furnace is going out–on a night when it’s supposed to drop to zero!  I went over there, thinking that I would take them home with me, but Mom was already in bed and Dad had heaters going and was manually keeping the furnace going so it was actually in the mid-60’s.  He didn’t want to move her.  Then the next door neighbor came over to check on them which also made me feel better.

So I went home and worked on a Bible Study for tomorrow, using content from the sermon on Sunday.  I also worked on my annual jig saw puzzle.