Margin - Mostly OT

[gordon stelter]

Best wishes to you, Clyde!
    Peace,
     Gordon

--- Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com> wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> This is a goodbye (perhaps shortlived or temporary,
> who knows?) to the 
> pianotech list, but not for the normal reasons, like
> being upset over 
> arguments or getting tired of the OT posts.
> 
> It is because I could see myself in a book I am
> currently reading titled 
> Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and
> Time Reserves to 
> Overloaded Lives by Richard Swenson, M.D.  I am
> trying to prioritize the 
> various aspects of my life.  The list didn't make
> the cut.  I am also 
> attempting to reduce my work load servicing pianos. 
> I find it easy to 
> answer the call of the urgent and ignore the
> important.
> 
> About a year ago a "turn in the road" put me in
> touch with my neighbors, 
> both adults and teens, in ways I did not experience
> previously.  I won't 
> take the time to get more specific.
> 
> Some of my neighbors and acquaintances are satisfied
> with the lives they 
> lead, and I am not trying to change their minds. 
> But others find life a 
> drag because they are living destructive lifestyles,
> or they have 
> inadequate resources to deal with their problems. 
> They feel trapped, 
> and they don't know where to turn.  One neighbor
> told me on Sunday, "We 
> need all the help we can get."
> 
> At the very least, I want them to know that across
> the street, in the 
> white house with red shutters, there is a man who
> cares enough to at 
> least listen, and maybe help in some way.  As a
> follower of Jesus, I am 
> willing to talk about their current welfare but also
> about the eternal, 
> if they're open to that.   But this takes time, and
> I am trying to free 
> up more time for such things.
> 
> The conversations I've had over the past eight
> months are quite unlike 
> anything before this.  What I am doing is very
> rewarding and likely to 
> become even more so.  More painful, too, probably. 
> :-)  I'd love to 
> tell you more, but I've got to stop somewhere, or
> this email will eat up 
> my whole morning!
> 
> Now you know a little more what makes me tick.  If
> you wish to respond 
> and want me to see it, you'll need to email me
> privately.  I wish you 
> all the best.
> 
> Regards,
> Clyde Hollinger, RPT
> Lititz, PA
> 
> "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.... 
> I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
> all the difference."
> -- Robert Frost
> 
> 



		
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