What I learned this week...

Hello Girlfriends.

Greetings from the home office of the CFO of OMM Productions, LLC. As I sit here on my couch (!) in jeans and a T-shirt, barefoot eating a sandwich, I believe that this "owning one's own business" is not so bad. Of course, last night when I was still working at 10:00pm I was thinking, "What the heck am I doing? This is crazy!"

I leave tomorrow for Washington DC. Been hired by the Army in DC to produce a PR video. I'm there until Saturday. Then I stay over until Monday and will visit a few people at the Army's National Headquarters and schmooze a bit. For those of you who know them, I'll be staying with Stan and Leslie Melton over the weekend.

Cathy and I have recently learned a very valuable lesson about obedience. On June 25 the sermon was about "partial" obedience. The Pastor spoke about getting your house in order before God will bless you. He told a story about a land owner who had a pet monkey. Now this monkey had the run of the main house, which was fine, but he had an extremely long tail that continually knocked things over. Many of the owner's precious knick-knacks were knocked over and broken. So he told his servant to take the monkey to the barn and cut his tail off. So the servant took monkey into the barn. The land owner heard the monkey screem. But, then a few seconds later he heard it screem again. And, then a few seconds later the monkey screemed again...and again. The owner went to the barn and asked the servant, "Why is the monkey screeming so much?" The servant said, "I thought I would cut his tail off a little at a time so it wouldn't hurt as much."

Well, the lesson in that rather gross story is that partial obedience to avoid pain or hurt is not the way to go if you want God to bless your life. So, both Cathy and I each were hanging on to one thing that we each felt needed to be taken care of or put to an end instead of hanging on to it with partial obedience. It was a milestone for each of us and very tramatic and difficult to make that step...but we each did it and are confident God will bless our obedience.

C