Hail to the king, baby...

Firstly, a gold star for Kent in lieu of bonus points…(There, now no more crying!)

Today marks a wonderful, wonderful moment. No, I’m not referring to the fact that it is the birthday of the man that brought us such film gems as Dr. Doolittle II, The Nutty Professor, and Norbit: Eddie Murphy. (Still, he gave us The Golden Child, so I should cut him some slack.) While it may be “Donkey’s” birthday, that’s not the subject of my current excitement. I’m referring to the fact that today we (finally) finished taking inventory at work. It has been the source of my tiredness lately and the reason I wanted to take some time off from the writing that you little monkeys seem to enjoy for some reason. Anyway, inventory took much, much too long, but nobody, at any point, resorted to cannibalism, so there was much rejoicing. (Yay!)

It’s been a very, very busy few days, but I’ve managed to learn a few things in the process:

1) When working ridiculously long hours, it’s very important to have a good breakfast, and Richard Walkers’ apple pancakes are great.
2) Integrity matters.
3) There’s not a power in the ‘verse that can keep Kaylee from being cheerful. (Ok, so I already knew that one…but it never hurts to be reminded. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’re needin’ to get yourself some Firefly.)

But about that integrity…

Last night at youth group, we were looking in chapter 20 of Proverbs and noticed that “integrity” seemed to be a theme throughout the chapter. One verse spoke of a king whose throne was being upheld by “steadfast love and faithfulness.” I think that’s a great vision of integrity right there. Here you have this king, who rules over his people. (It’s good to be the king.) He doesn’t have to be “nice.” He’s the king. Yet when he rules with “steadfast love and faithfulness,” his people respond and “uphold” the throne.

That seems to be a pretty good indication of integrity, no? How you treat people when you don’t need to treat them at all mirrors the attitude of your heart.

So how does your reflection look?

On a completely unrelated note…tomorrow kicks off National Hate Week.

Oh boy…

Much luv,
Rob
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Song of the Day: “Wonderful Life” by Gwen Stefani