Saturday, February 27, 2010

To Sue Or Not To Sue

So there is this situation going on w/ a friend of mine who works for a certain company. The company has going through a numbe of transitions for the past year or so since a new CEO too over the company. My friend worked for one of the three pioneers of the company. After the new CEO took over and the one of the old CEO's retired my friends boss began to have numerous problems with the new CEO till she finally retired also. The division my friend worked for then began having a series of problems as the one remaining pioneer took over the reigns. For whatever reasons, the remaining pioneer sougth to revamp the my friend's entire division. A staffing plan was devised and is in the stages of being implemented. The problem began as my friend was not allowed to directly participate in the revamping although her ideas were solicited and often implemented by the revampiong team. The remaining pioneer never sought my friend out directly and appeared to be intentionally margniZlizing my friend despite the administrative role my friend has in her division. The pioneering CEO began working direcely with my friends staff and began commnunicating with my friend indirectly almost as if she did not want to have a direct conversation with her. To further confuse the issue my friend was never directly told what her role should be during this revamping process. Yet my friend continues to have her ideas consistently challenged and she continues to receive negative feedback from the remaining pioneer. My friend did request a meeting with the remainiong pioneer but she never received a direct response from the pioneer. My friend basically does not know what her ole is and is obviously stressed out by the whole process. She feels that every action is subject to unwarranted criticism

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Prayer Meeting

It's been awhile. I just retuned from a weekly prayer breakfast I attend with a couple of girlfriends. This time is so precious and inspiring to me. we typically share how God has blessed us over the past month and we then share prayer requests with each other. These requests can be related to our own personal lives but they also include prayers we have been given by others in our live who have requested prayer. In between praying and praising God, we have a great meal and we do a lot of talking,laughing, and connecting. I have come to depend on this time of sharing. It has been very helpful duing this difficult time in my life. Praying reminds me that I don't have to try to figure out life on my own. rather, I have a God who delights in blessing me and who gives me wisdom and power to make it through my daily life. Prayer time reminds me that I am God's child and that just like I care about my childre, God cares about me. It also causes me to reflect on the fact that I am not limited by my own human inadequacies and shortcomings. God is always with me and I can always rely on his strength and power. I may be small but he is really big. My shoulders can only take so much but his arms can hold me and all my problems just fine. I am so glad that I was blessed to come to know him as my personal saviour and that through this personal relationship with him I can pretty much do anything, handle anything, and be successful at anything as long as I do it all in his name.