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Date: 12 May 2007 18:28:25
Hey, as far as updates go I realise I've precious little about work for awhile... Can you tell it's just burbling away nicely on the back burner? :)
I had a lovely shift this morning. Since last autumn we've had precious few real shifts with our assistant manager J. If I've theoretically worked one, he's usually had to hide up in managers' office for tedious stuff while I coped on the shop floor alone. Colleagues have found that too. Things have been steadily improving though.
Today was a treasure of moments like both sitting down for breakfast with one of the lads, overhearing him and the boys chatting football and stuff because he could and did take the time, both chatting with the girls and joking with them. We had a great shift. I can say I was more relaxed too as a result because it was obvious we'd got one another's back. The kids always feel it. They know instinctively when the staff present a united front and they chill rather than mess.
Goodness knows J's been running and getting stressed until recently. We'd nattered about it during my IPM. Well today was proof that he's finally at ease with many of the jobs he's been learning over the past few months. It's interesting thinking about that. Watching a manager grow into his job. Both of our coordinators are rising to their challenges in similar ways.
I must remember to thank them and encourage them more. They don't have easy jobs. They need to be built up more often than we think of doing it.
As for :) well that'll be code for Fabrice and the marvellous text message and email I got today and how they lifted me. I'm amazed, even surprised, that I can have such an encouraging effect on someone else's life and the way they feel. What he said was real precious to me and yet if someone looks at it it might seem so simple and look as though it should mean as much. I feel so cherished :)
What more should I say than "Thank you God for such a man as this, whom you hid away for me to find. Praise you for the smiles and all the joy he brings!! Hold us Jesus, safe and true."
I feel I've found a jewel.
Right this moment, I wonder what God's got in store and I'm at peace.