Musings on a Small Life

So I sent a top-level agenda out this afternoon, for a regular meeting tomorrow. I don't schedule the meetings, one of the top admin offices does, and I get the meeting tracking/attendee status from the assistant and then send out the agendas. (Don't ask why. It doesn't make any sense to me, either, but there you go.) Anyway, last week I spent considerable time calling the "tentatives" to find out if they'd be there (called their admin assistants, I mean), and so sent the agenda based on what they told me plus the meeting tracking. Well, it turns out that one dean is dialing in (teleconference) and another dean emailed me directly to say she'd be there (her admin assistant had told me she'd be away but the dean decided not to take the day off). So I revised the attendee list and sent the agenda out again...only to get a message from the CIO of another unit telling me HE'D be there too. He's marked under the "regrets" because he's...

A few comments to my post yesterday, with the quotes, reminded me (again) that communication among humans can be tricky, because the meaning of some words is purely subjective. For instance, the word "joy" to me doesn't equate with happiness, but rather is spiritual in nature, more a state of Being that is beyond word or thought. But "joy" means other things to other people. As do the words "expectations" and "hope." What if Eileen Caddy's first quote had, for instance, been written as, "Trust God (or have faith in God...) to meet your every need. Trust God to provide the answer to every problem. Trust God to bring abundance on every level." Perhaps that would have resonated with some more than the original quote. For me, those quotes, and the web page, remind me that attitude is everything. That operating daily from a place of fear or discouragement or bitterness or hopelessness engenders more of the same in on...