October 17, 2012
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Wide Awake...
I should be going to sleep right about now. Instead I am wide awake and I was tossing and turning, so I decided to give it up and come out here and type an entry and mess around on the internet.
I caught a bit of the debate earlier tonight-it was about the way I figured it would be. Didn't sway my opinion either way.
After work I went hiking/jogging around a little mountain near where I work and live. It was good exercise-I haven't been running like I used to and I can tell that I'm in very bad shape, so I need to work on that.
I've been thinking over a lot of things lately. Today someone asked a question that made me think about yet another thing. The question: who do you look to as a role model? Who would you aspire to become more like, or who has certain traits that you admire and respect and really look up to? It is an interesting topic. I admire many people for many different reasons-it is hard for me to pin that on just one person. I would like to take a whole bunch of qualities from a whole bunch of different people and roll it all into one.
For myself, I think I lack patience. Which is interesting, because I've also been reading and thinking a lot about spiritual gifts. That is a topic that comes up every now and then with different Bible studies that I do, and in church, etc. Anyway, while I feel that I absolutely lack patience, I am continually being placed in the role of teacher. I can explain things and show things to people in a way where they "get it". I have a knack for it, and so time after time I find myself in that role, but it is kind of difficult, because I really don't necessarily LIKE to teach. I feel very impatient and kind of want to lose my mind. Yet, if that is the gift that I've been given, I will have to use it over and over throughout my life, so I better work on the patience! It isn't that I snap at people or anything, just that inside I am practically itching with the desire to NOT teach or be the trainer. It is an interesting situation sometimes. What do you all think that your spiritual gifts might be?
Hmm......ok, I better go.
Currently
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)
By Robert C. O'Brien
see relatedOh, I did just finish rereading a book from my childhood-one of my favorite kids books of all time: The Rats of NIMH. For any animal loving child with an active imagination, this book is just magical. Forever after reading that book, and still today, I imagine cozy little mouse and rat homes with all kinds of little tiny miniature furniture and things to make a lovely little rodent home, with a mother mouse happily tucking her babies in at night. *sigh*.... things are so much funner inside my imagination....there is no Honta Virus or Bubonic Plague carried by the rats in my head.
Comments (1)
What an interesting question. It brought up some thoughts for me as well. I used to enjoy "teaching" and/or training new insurance claims secretaries at work and when I did Workers Compensation claims, I especially enjoyed "teaching" or explaining to my clients how WC worked and in particular how a permanent partial disability worked as they signed the documents to be filed with the State. I don't think I would have wanted to be a teacher in a school however. I really liked my insurance claims career very much.
As for role models...wow.... I can't think of anyone famous that I would admire that much. I do think of friends and relatives that had some good attributes. Like you, I would take the best of many of them as my goals to strive to reach. I guess my own goal should be to think about something before I automatically say no.....to give myself "permission" to enjoy something by taking a chance.
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