We now return you to our regularly scheduled Advent discipline (after yesterday's comment-inducing bonus bubbly coverage).
So, I would like to think (and others can correct me if my beliefs are wrong), I am the kind of person who does not like to let relationships get mixed up, messy, or otherwise out of whack. I try hard (some tell me too hard) to make everyone happy, trying to get everyone to like me or at least be OK with me. So, I did not have any specific relationships I set out to straighten today, but, this morning, one of my co-workers did seem to be "out of whack." She is the kind of person that almost always has a smile on her face and, today, her commute was bad and other things may have been on her mind, so I tried to make her smile all day. And I think I succeeded (unless she was humoring me). Sometimes when people are sour, we can react and be sour back. I prefer to try to be kind and understand what might be going on in their lives. If we can make someone smile who is having a bad day, then we can “Prepare the way of the Lord" and "make his paths straight.” I hope I did that today for my coworker.
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