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This is a relatively short blog, but last night when I was at work - two people were arguing left, right and centre about how something should be done. One person said one thing, another said another. And I thought to myself, too many chiefs and not enough Indians. And the second thought was, where's the training manual? Simple answer. There isn't one. So when it came down to basics, when it comes to training people, lip service seems to be the answer. And as everyone knows, when lip service seems to be the answer, mistakes can be made.
Quite honestly (and I don't know why) I seem to have an aversion lately about being in an atmosphere of tenseness, strife and argumentation. This all came about - about 3 years ago when I was battling with people at a certain health department. Although I was the one being affected at the time, I thought of all the other people that were about to be affected that will only find out when they turn up on the day - that nothing could be done because they lived in the wrong postcode area. That "battling" took 13 months to sort out, and although winning my case - and costing them a lot of money to sort it out, it left me feeling totally drained. And believe it or not, that totally drained feeling all came about when my washing machine broke down and flooded my kitchen not long after winning the case. For how long I don't know, but I was found sitting on the floor with water all around me, and it was if my brain just switched off. From that day to this, whenever there's an atmosphere of a warring nature, I have to get away from it. So I looked at these two people, got up off my chair and went out the office and into the fresh air for about 10 minutes. Something inside me said, I can't deal with this. Although these people made up their differences eventually, the atmosphere was red hot for the rest of the night.
Although I've read-up on scriptures in the bible about the effects of tenseness, strife and argumentation, fair enough I'm a bit like a volcano that bubbles for a long time before it erupts - and sometimes I confront things if I know its wrong. But lately I don't want to even bubble. And last night was yet another indication of many that I have simply got to get away from it. Something has changed that I cannot explain. So I'm throwing out the question: Why do I react to things and seem to steer away from it (walking away rather than hanging around it) when previously it never affected me?
One thing I am going to mention though if it happens again, that they should write up a training manual signed by the one who wrote out the training manual, so that everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet - and that everyone knows how its done. There's too many chiefs and not enough Indians telling people what they should do and how it should be done. Think about it in church language. Go to one place and they teach you one thing. Go to another - they teach you another. The training manual is supposed to be the bible, but depending on what slant people put upon stuff when lip service is involved, its open to interpretation. Get my drift? Weigh-up these two events and tell me what you think. Also have it in mind that when people go on meltdown in the church, they totally switch off. Some briefly, some permanently. Here end my message. |
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Steve, I can really identify with this. Too many chiefs, lol. Which one do you believe? Many are sure that they are right, they speak so confidently! Try to question or disagree? WHACK!! You get scalped! (ouch!)
Best to avoid hostile indian country Steve, lol |
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Cheryl |
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July 15, 2008 at 10:21am |
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(((Stevie))) a short blog....what!!! haha
I agree with Mike guy...staying away from hostile indians!! LOL
Did I tell you I'm Indian, and German, and French and ........LOL!!! |
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July 15, 2008 at 10:36am |
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| LOL!!!! |
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| Hi Mike n Laura. Too many chiefs is what I believe. And I've experienced the scalping technique. As for Cheryl... well you know me and messages. This IS a short message. I'll send the rest of it by tom-tom drum and smoke signals, LOL!!! |
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| I forgot to say Cheryl. My tom-tom drums doesn't speak French or German - and I don't know how to send up smoke signals in those languages either. LOL!!! So you'll have to do with plain old English, and there are a couple of people here that have heard me... |
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Cheryl |
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July 15, 2008 at 4:00pm |
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| Okay fine!! hehe |
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Hi Cheryl. Getting serious for a second or two. Given both scenarios above in my blog, whilst writing it - I recalled in my mind a friend of mine who gave up a well-paid accountancy job that he'd been in for 20 years to become a preacher. Ex number of years later he had a total mental breakdown, and to mention God, faith, the church or anything of that nature was like acid to his ears - because during his ministry as a preacher - he was literally supposed to be switched on 24/7, and the amount of people that phoned him up during the night for one reason or another was unbelievable.
Like I said above, he had a total mental breakdown. This took a few years to recover from. Fair enough, something happened in his life and he returned to the roots of his faith some years later. He preached to people, set up bible-study groups for people, led bible-study groups with people and led a Cell church whereby the responsibility was spread-out rather than narrowed down. The thing about it is Cheryl, although he did all the above and more, he never became a preacher again in the sense of taking it on as a full-time job. His full-time job was that of a postman delivering parcels and letters.
I had the privilege of knowing this man for a number of years before he died about 5 years ago from Acute Myeloid Leukemia. But a few years before this happened, I talked to him about those days as a preacher, and he slowly shook his head and said something. That "something" changed his life forever. His faith was strong, his marriage was strong and he brought all his children up in the faith, but he vigorously shook his head when I mentioned anything to do with his preacher work on a full-time basis. It was still like acid to his ears. All I heard was "nope" and a rapid "no-no-no." |
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