I would like to publicly praise the Lord for the encouragement He has been offering me via a potential Nebuchadnezzar in my life.

My boss has not yet openly disclosed where his “internal motivation” derives from, however I have noticed a small rug thingy recently hung on his doorway quoting the ‘holiest…dalai llama’ and I am still prayerfully considering when and how to ask questions about his faith and initiate a discussion. Mind you, I am his employee, visa vis his servant, and therefor offer him my full respect, attention, and worksmanship. I do know, however, that ‘good people’ are and will be perishing eternally and desire that he and everyone I know come into and remain in a love relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ, His son, the Way.

That being said, I remember how the Lord has used, and will continue to use people who don’t, or just don’t yet believe He is. I am encouraged, most of the time EVERY DAY, and sometimes more than once a day, by the Lord my God through this man. It is truly amazing, to be blessed and affirmed verbally, professionally, and socially by a man I greatly respect and aspire to be like (in the kitchen anyway). God uses him to tell me how hard I am on myself [duh], how that can be used for the positive, and how I am enough (i.e. good enough, smart enough, punctual enough, respectful enough, and talented enough) to do the job at hand.

PRAISE THE LORD! I have read and trust in the “Five Love Languages” study, and know firsthand from my marriage that communicating love in an effective way has sooooo much more success for the person being loved. I love going to work! I love that the Lord of Hosts finds a way, and makes it clear that it IS Him, to love me each day in the dialect He created me to be loved in.

Seek and you shall find, ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened. I am not sure where or why that verse popped into my mind, but take it as it is-it may be what you need to do, or hear.