Eagles Soar Above the Madness

Oh no she didn’t!! She ain’t (and yes, I said just that) my boss. My boss is …… and she is certainly not her. She did not hire me and certainly cannot fire me, so where does she come off talking to me like she is the boss. Today was one of the days that I should have had my afternoon shot, well on second thought it was probably better that I did not have it. Things might have been worse. I wanted to pop her in the face. Did I? No, because right now I need my job:)

This is what happened:  I received an email from a co-worker on my level, telling me to go retrieve something out of a client’s file. Now the co-worker and our boss were emailing back and forth regarding this issue and then SHE felt the need to direct the email to me. I instantly felt something.

I had to take a pause and you know how you just have to make sure you read/heard what you thought you read/heard, so I reread it and I felt it again. Now I have been trained at my house of Worship, IGO Church to stop and quickly ask yourself why did you get upset. What is the root of this? In my pausing, I asked myself and the Holy Spirit why and honestly I think it was too easy, so maybe He hasn’t answered me yet:) Just kidding. Address the issues and always be mindful when things get to you learn to ask yourself why. There is sometimes something behind it.

I came up with the following:

• I love order and when things/people are out of order I sometimes get bothered
• I am the senior assistant in the office, so if anything I should be telling people what to do
• This person does this often and I think that the boss needs to address it, however maybe not enough people have said anything to the boss and/or her directly so she thinks it is okay behavior

I have to practice and give grace and mercy to people because I know like I need air, that I need it daily, hourly and frankly sometimes every second.

Eagles Soar Above the Madness

I could have chosen to ignore the teachings that I have been taught and not look inward and just decide to look outward at her. I could have charged back at her with who do you think you are and then have to deal with those consequences which I am sure would not have been pretty. I think something needs to be said, but in love not reacting but responding.

Since we all have a choice, I decided to chose the high road and just get the information for the client. The client in the end would have been the one suffering not her. She would have gone right on with her day and I would have been festering some nasty feelings towards her. I chose to be an eagle and soar above the madness and believe you me, it is not always easy but with Christ all things are possible.

The devil wanted me off my game and distract me from more important things. So for this week, my Trying Something New Tuesday thing is an act of love and that was to chose mercy and grace. I chose to rise above the nonsense and negativity. Give people a break sometimes because truly we have no idea what they are going through.

How did you handle somebody that did you wrong? Did you put them in their place or did you look at the bigger picture and just gave them a break?