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Back…… kinda. yes.
WordPress still enrages me with posting Vimeo content on here. Can’t figure it out. Want to, but can’t. (Any ideas?)
So the other blog (my.other.blog) is still going. So is this one.
To state the obvious: Changed the look. Added Twitter feed. Added Flickr feed. Added Cloud Tag. Anything else you wanna see?
Glad to be back. Hoping to post more regularly.
~NjS
volunteering:defined
volunteer (vŏl’ən-tîr’)
n.
1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily
2. Botany: A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
adj.
1. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers
2. Botany: Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
v.
volunteered, volunteering, volunteers
To give or offer to give voluntarily
1. To perform or offer to perform a service of one’s own free will.
2. To do charitable or helpful work without pay
-dictionary.com
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way.
Where is the logic in this?:
Take the time to find a great place for someone to volunteer their time (their most precious resource); one that they are excited about and that has them utilizing their natural talents and abilities;
And then ask them to do it once-in-a-while; to give their bare minimum- and then to remain excited about it.
Talk about a let down- and, by definition, a paradox.
“Well… they’re not paid.” Comes the retort.
How does that even find it’s way into the conversation?!
Yes- volunteering is not a job. (Duh!) And the expectation isn’t that one should treat it as such.
People will take pay for something they loathe. Very few will do that repugnant action for free. Volunteers want to be there. They love what they are doing.
Yes? No?
~NjS
vision:defined
vi-sion [viz-shun]:
_noun
-the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
-the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
-an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency
-something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
-a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
-something seen; an object of sight.
-a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty
_verb (used with object)
-to envision
That’s what dictionary.com says.
What do you say?
~NjS
A(part)
LosWhit gave me a moment’s pause this evening.
So I followed th e link there to Mark and Angie’s blog. It’s an epic story. Yes. Epic. It moved me. And I wrote this;
“Angie,
I don’t believe we know each other. I linked to your site from ragamuffinsoul.com. Thank you for your honesty!
My uncle, whose name is also Mark, passed just over 20 years ago. I was so young, 9 I think, and I still remember the impact.
I was talking about it recently and remember the conversation I had with my grandmother the night we found out:
My parents and I were driving to be with the rest of the family. And I prayed, asking Abba to raise my daddy’s brother back to life- the story of Lazarus burning in the back of my mind.
As soon as we got to my grandparents house I bee-lined for my grandmother; I knew that she could answer my questions, because she knew more about God than anyone. I tugged on her dress as she was finishing her conversation with our pastor. She leaned over and took my hands, somehow sensing the desperation in that moment for me.
“I prayed to Jesus that Uncle Mark would come back to life. Will he?”
“Oh, honey, he’s been gone too long….”, she said, after a slight pause,her voice quivering.
The whole event expanded my world. My cousin and I, 16 days apart, became best friends even to this day. It was a day of firsts: The first time I saw my hero- my daddy cry. (I still know the exact path his tears took as they rolled over his eyelids and down his cheeks.) The first time I knew that somehow it just wasn’t all fair. And the first time I doubted even God.
I can’t imagine, nor pretend to know, all of everything you are going through now. May Abba continue to bring His mercy every morning. Blessings.
~Nick”
He just got married!
