I spent most of the day on spiritual gifts. The rest of the day I spent practicing my flutes, pouring post-dated bottled drinks down the drain (sports drinks and Ensure), doing miscellaneous chores, and taking a half hour nap.
How do you spend a day on spiritual gifts? I hate to say this, but there wasn’t really anything supernatural about it.
The requirement for such a pursuit was quite simple: uninterrupted time. Mom and John have been gone all day: he took her to her eye specialist in Seattle, and then they went on up to Burlington to buy the month’s supply of cat food from Northwest Coop and a cartload of stuff from Costco.
I honestly thought that working on part two of the gifts assignment would only take an hour or two, but time got away with me. First, I read through the Life Keys Leaders’ Guide, checking the corresponding book (Discover Who You Are) and making computer notes. Then, after my nap, I came back to the computer and brainstormed at the keyboard. Then, I read and edited all my previous notes and current notes about spiritual gifts and composed an email.
The teacher in me took over. Though the material was much different than my English composition teaching days (and, I could argue, ultimately far more important than reviewing essay models or preparing punctuation power points), the intensity of focus was familiar. I love preparing just as much as I love teaching, especially when the materials concern eternal Truth.
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