love order ... yes I do

I just want to publicly admire Karen V., who runs our AWANA Sparks program. She is the most amazingly organized person.

Every year, about this time, she gives me folders of work to do to prepare for the fall program.

She knows what she wants. She communicates it clearly (and in writing - joy of my heart!), and she gives me plenty of time to do it for her.

It sounds like such a simple thing, but it makes my job a delight.

I love organization! LOVE it!!!!!

strange customer service at Office Depot last night

Anyone else figure this one out?

I was running errands with a friend last night, and we stopped at Best Buy to pick up a couple computer monitors for her work. They were on sale, but out of stock.

We stopped several other places, the last of which was Office Depot, where they had the same monitor, but not on sale.

So we (I thought graciously) asked the manager if they did price matching, mentioning that Best Buy was out of stock, and gave her the ad with the sale price mentioned.

She was very suspicious, saying, "they SHOULD have them." She went off to check with someone if they could honor our request, also mentioning she needed to call Best Buy to find out if they were truly out of stock.

Huh? Does anybody understand this?

I would think, either they do price matching ... in which case they'd want our business, even if B.B. had a pile of them. Or they don't, in which case, "sorry we can't help you."

But the suspicion, and need to double check on our honesty ... continues to puzzle me.

It was an evening of bad customer service, but that one continues to baffle me. I can't quite figure out what we could have possibly been up to! Plus, my friend was spending a LOT of money on other things for work ... didn't seem to matter. We might as well have been stuffing merchandise into our purses!

Weird evening ...

(Office Depot on Alpine in Grand Rapids, just for reference of anyone who's interested!)

Peerless Worth

One verse of this poem was quoted in this morning's sermon.

It's one of my favorites, so I thought I'd post the whole thing here, in case others might like to have it.

Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Miss Ora Rowan (1834-1879)

HAST thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him,
Joyful choose the better part.

Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.

What has stripped the seeming beauty
From the idols of the earth?
Not a sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth.

Not the crushing of those idols,
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart.

Who extinguishes their taper
Till they hail the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
Till the summer has begun?

'Tis the look that melted Peter,
'Tis the face that Stephen saw,
'Tis the heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw:

Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o'erflow the brim;
What have we to do with idols
Who have companied with Him?

Don't know who's behind this, but I really like it

What a blessing!