Change...

What to do when there is nothing to do? I was told this morning that I will be on sedentary duties until November 1, and that is TWO WEEKS AWAY! But here is the real kicker…there isn’t enough administrative duties to justify me staying in my department so they are looking for a place to put me.

I have no idea what the next two weeks of my life will be like. This is a strange thing, not knowing. Generally speaking I get up, drop off the monkey, come to work, do my job, pick up the monkey, and go home. This has been working very well for quite a while now and even though it’s only a two week period of not knowing, I am not extremely comfortable with it.

Change…Webster’s defines change as to make or become different. Change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another.

I have always thought that I was pretty good with change, because change can be a very good thing, it can also be scary.  The Bible is full of change. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” I Corinthians 5:17.  With this I reassure myself that change is good…

So now I come to this new time in my life where my work will be changed from what I’m used to doing to something that is unknown. Even as I write this the powers that be are trying to decide what to do with this newly incapacitated person who must be accommodated. What can I do that is sedentary? Who knows…not me, that’s for sure! But thankfully I will be able to go back to doing my old thing in two weeks.