Today (yesterday) at work, there was a difficult situation. The details are way to hairy to go through here. Suffice to say, that a situation was not handled very well. The associate Dean called it a "perfect storm" with "too many cooks in the broth." I'd say that is an apt description, especially when one of the cooks knows nothing about the culture or policies of the "broth." Ahem, ahem...that cook would be me. While I made the best decision possible in the situation with which I was presented, my learning is - again - those three words that I stated so very early on in these very blog pages:
I too quickly followed the lead of someone when - if I had stopped, waited and listened - things may have turned out differently.
The student involved sent me an email later this evening, which I found after 9pm - quite by accident. I sent a note to the faculty involved, and also to the student. What I want to do is lead my faculty and the student through a process that repairs some of the damage that was done on Wednesday, and moves us all forward to a resolution that is for the highest good of all. The only spot I know from which work and a decision like this can be made is one of Spiritual Groundedness and Quiet.
God - don't go AWOL on me now.
And even as I write that last line (mostly because it made me smile as it dropped into my head) I know this just as well: That Spirit does not go AWOL. It is I who become disconnected from that which is always there.
So gues what? I'm stopping. I'm waiting. I'm listening.
That I wake up refreshed later this morning, so that my body and mind will be in good shape for navigating the seas tomorrow.
There is good work waiting to be done -
and I want to be at my best.
