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Mar. 14th, 2006 01:53 pmToday has been a very, very stressful day. Not crisis-filled, but the aftermath of crisis. The coming down of crisis. We had a three hour office meeting this morning, most of which was emotional check-ins and sharing of feelings and fears. It exhausted us.
We've decided that we're going to dedicate our weekly Thursday prayer time to an internal memorial for Tom. It will stretch from our usual twenty minutes to at least an hour, and will be much in the Quaker tradition from which he came. Our office will officially be "closed" on Thursday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. We're not coming in until 11, then we have a two hour block of time set aside for memorial, worship, and meditation. We will not be answering phones, or doing any kind of regular work that morning. A message will be put on our voice mail announcing why we're not answering the phones.
I'm sure more emotional tumblings will come. This is not a small matter.
In the meantime, I'm trying to identify activities that will be positive and relaxing, and not putting extra burdens on other people. I'm not sure what they are yet, so further discernment is needed.
Okay, back to work.
We've decided that we're going to dedicate our weekly Thursday prayer time to an internal memorial for Tom. It will stretch from our usual twenty minutes to at least an hour, and will be much in the Quaker tradition from which he came. Our office will officially be "closed" on Thursday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. We're not coming in until 11, then we have a two hour block of time set aside for memorial, worship, and meditation. We will not be answering phones, or doing any kind of regular work that morning. A message will be put on our voice mail announcing why we're not answering the phones.
I'm sure more emotional tumblings will come. This is not a small matter.
In the meantime, I'm trying to identify activities that will be positive and relaxing, and not putting extra burdens on other people. I'm not sure what they are yet, so further discernment is needed.
Okay, back to work.
