Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Appreciating our differences
After a long day at work (on Tuesday), I came home to tackle our home office. (this is something I have wanted to do for quite some time now - and the day had finally arrived!)
Looking in Blueprint Magazine has actually become detrimental to not only my health but my marriage as well. (just kidding on the marriage part)
When I arrived at home and explained to Dan that I wanted to take everything out of our office, clean, then rearrange furniture and put only 1/3 of the "stuff" back in to the office, he was a little uncomfortable with the idea, to say the least.
He wondered why I could not clean the office and rearrange the furniture with all of the "stuff" where it was... because he had a work space in the office, that he was able to clean up within about an hour... (without removing anything from the office)
After a long evening of sorting old books, personal notes and student ministry lessons, I figured out that this project was going to take ALOT longer than a few hours in one evening. (we had ALOT OF STUFF!) (by the way, I have to tell you, I call my stuff "precious memories" (that Dan thinks we can toss), Dan calls his stuff "historical documents" that cannot be thrown out, no matter what.
Needless to say, we are completely different in our approach to "getting the job done" - and yeah, I will probably be working on this project until Saturday. (hopefully I will get it done before our dinner plans on Saturday evening)
Dan and I talked about how we are different, but we are learning to appreciate our differences as each day passes. I'm glad God can use anyone no matter how different they are than "us". So I guess today's though is one to appreciate diversity!
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
Looking in Blueprint Magazine has actually become detrimental to not only my health but my marriage as well. (just kidding on the marriage part)
When I arrived at home and explained to Dan that I wanted to take everything out of our office, clean, then rearrange furniture and put only 1/3 of the "stuff" back in to the office, he was a little uncomfortable with the idea, to say the least.
He wondered why I could not clean the office and rearrange the furniture with all of the "stuff" where it was... because he had a work space in the office, that he was able to clean up within about an hour... (without removing anything from the office)After a long evening of sorting old books, personal notes and student ministry lessons, I figured out that this project was going to take ALOT longer than a few hours in one evening. (we had ALOT OF STUFF!) (by the way, I have to tell you, I call my stuff "precious memories" (that Dan thinks we can toss), Dan calls his stuff "historical documents" that cannot be thrown out, no matter what.
Needless to say, we are completely different in our approach to "getting the job done" - and yeah, I will probably be working on this project until Saturday. (hopefully I will get it done before our dinner plans on Saturday evening)
Dan and I talked about how we are different, but we are learning to appreciate our differences as each day passes. I'm glad God can use anyone no matter how different they are than "us". So I guess today's though is one to appreciate diversity!
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
Labels: Christie, Dan, differences, dinner, historical, Ponjican
# posted by Dan & Christie Ponjican @ 1:13 PM 
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Oooo! That looks like my boys' room before I got ahold of it last Saturday! I got a 30 gallon trash bag and bit my lip and threw out tons of perfectly good "stuff" that we simply didn't have the room for (evidenced by the fact that you couldn't even SEE the floor or GET TO the closet in their room). GO FOR IT! Get a trash bag and DO IT! You will feel SO MUCH BETTER when it's all over!!!!!
I can attest that Dan & Christie's office looks immeasurably better after Christie's efforts on Saturday! Granted, methods of transference might oft been employed, the room now looks like something out of a magazine.
What you said about needing the room to be an empty, blank canvas reminded me of an 80's CCM song by "Mickey and Becky" (+10 points for anyone who knows who M&B are!)...
"He broke me down.
He broke me down.
Before he could work, he had to break me down"
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What you said about needing the room to be an empty, blank canvas reminded me of an 80's CCM song by "Mickey and Becky" (+10 points for anyone who knows who M&B are!)...
"He broke me down.
He broke me down.
Before he could work, he had to break me down"
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