Daily Randomness

Where to begin…I live and work in this crazy environment, one where people are always coming and going. I love it and hate it…I am relational to the core of my being, so I love to meet new people, but there will come a time when good-byes will be said. Recently there has been a lot of comings and goings with friends. The internet is a wonderful way to keep in touch with the friends that I have made and now reside all over the world, and for this I am grateful. Today my roommate (the best one I have ever had) left to get married, so we will probably never share a room together again. But I have also heard from several others that I have not kept up with for a while. See when living this crazy life, we are apt to have a large list of people that we send e-mail updates too, (never as often as we should, yet we try) and I was blessed to get some of these updates from old friends today. It hit me that I need to try harder to maintain some of these relationships, beyond the normal, reading the update, responding if there is time, or just simply responding with my own update. Thanks to technology, there are all kinds of ways to stay in touch, we have moved beyond posted mail and e-mail to My Space and blogs. I have to say that I like it because I can stay informed but all form the safety of an office, so it is on my terms (we like convince in this day and age). Not sure what my point is to all of this, other than I want to make more of an effort to keep up with more people.

Point Two: As I read through my friends different blogs and My Space pages they all seem to have fun titles, names and nick names for themselves, (I am sure that there is a story behind them). But I found myself wondering why I am just Jen Morgan, sometimes I throw in the year that I was born, if it won’t accept just my name. I started to try to think up a new cool name, Then I realized that Jen Morgan, is me. I am me, simply me, take me as I am, or don’t take me at all. You get what you see with me, and that is why people love me (I think). So I am content to stay a simple Jen Morgan, besides the simplicity helps people to find me, and the consistency is good too, and one day I will grow up and not have to change my titles, because suddenly I have become too old, for them. Which leads me to

Point Three: Do you really look at people? I mean really see them, notice little things about how they look, move, talk? I have noticed that in all my busyness I am passing people by. Because I am relational to the core of my being, I want to notice people more to take time to really hear them and know them. Each person holds value, and sometimes it is easier to get caught up in their stuff, and not look past their junk to see their value. They are a created human being just like me and you, they hold value. So God help me to take time to slow down, to really see people, to see their value, to see past their stuff (we all have stuff in us that is not pretty, myself included), and see them for who you created them to be, and to see the value that you have placed in their life. It is important to come along side people and encourage them. After all I would not be who I am today with out a lot of people who did this for me.

There is more, but I think that for tonight I will leave you with that thought.