Authority

Why is authority so hard to respect?? Is it the pride inside me? Is it that I will not obey people I do not respect.

I struggle everyday to respect and obey willingly those in charge of me. The guys that I respect I listen to with a willing and open mind, but my bosses who are just total idiots are so hard to obey. I talked about this with one of my friends I work with and we both struggle to listen to the guys in authority over us. If we think something they are telling us to do is stupid or just plain idiotic then it is almost like pulling teeth out (or getting a haircut in my case). My friends dad, told him that it does not matter what your boss tells you to do, if you do it like he says it will fall on his shoulders. I will admit that if i listened to everything my boss told me I do not think i would get my job done as effectively.

All this deep thinking of late is hurting my brain... colorado Springs is so beautiful this time of year!! The grass is just starting to turn green and flowers are peeking their heads out of the ground everywhere. I feel so much more alive every time I look around and see another garden that is coming alive. The glen is so beautiful when God brings everything out of dormancy in the spring.

I guess he has been doing that with me lately. My mind has been opened to many things lately. How i treat people has been at the forefront of my mind. It was brought to a head this week at church. JR was talking about inclusiveness. I hardly ever hear the way jesus treated people called inclusiveness. It really was inclusiveness! He did not exclude anyone from his kingdom if they were willing to come clean with him. There are alot of people I reject in my daily meanderings. I just decide that they are not any fun to hang around or not worth it. or just un cool. Where I get off deciding that I do not know, because even though most people like me i am hardly ever considered cool.