FINISHED

The one thing I enjoy about my job is that when I leave at the end of a shift, the work got done and I have what is called closure. That really is such a wonderful feeling. Wish everything in life worked that way. But it doesn't.

I have this one person I deal with who loves to make something incredible urgent in terms of a given detail. Like it is crisis if you don't deal with a problem right away. Normally though whenever I do help and we obtain whatever is needed to fix the problem that is where the crisis ends.

The actual using the items that were needed can take forever. Which meant the urgency was only related to the part about taking something to a given point without any closure.

That is the part that frustrates. Because you end up never actually understanding why it was such an urgency if nothing was going to be done afterwards.

Any effort to in some way actually get the person to expound on the logic to such behavior never ends with any actual response that makes sense. It just ends up being mainly frustrating.

So one has to cope with such annoyances, which sadly is always part of this person's nature no matter how absurd the occasion. Unfortunately for me I don't have the option of just not dealing with this person either.

What I have learned is to try to help be encouraging. In hopes of helping keep this person's stress to a minimum and therefore reducing the needs for them to act to compulsive. It has worked with varying degrees of success.

Now for a person of little patience this is an even bigger challenge at times. I just do what I need to respect that this whole thing in part has a purpose in the Lord's will.

That might seem like a trite answer, but it really is the truth. On the one had it has helped to reinforced the irony of vanity for me.

How there are too many times we obsess with small things that are not that important and ignore the ones that count. It happens way too much.

This helps me appreciate the things that really should count at times. My mind drifts to thinking of things eternal.

And that leaves me remembering the Lord and his many blessings. For that I am grateful. I will always appreciate how there is light in the shadows when you find the right candle. It makes all the difference at times.

And when we can see that, we are truly blessed. I will always rejoice over such choices when the Lord reveals them.