1 Love your job.
2 Love your team.
3 The rest will come.
I guess everyone was smiling when they saw the little note which Ines had put up next to the working list. Well, it was funny even if it might sound quite trivial. But it also bears a profound truth.
Love your job. I remember some of Saturdays when I checked the working list at lunch, saw Ines' note and thought "I love to work, just not there" or "I love this job, just not this week". A lot of other times I smiled because basically I loved my jobs, at least after a while. I loved them because we didn't work to get paid. We had not signed any contract that forced us to produce and to function. Despite all the things that we might have doubted about our tasks we worked out of convinction. We were not empty in what we did because we did it with our heart and not with the intention to gain a reward. This reality I loved about every job I had. Sometimes I was more aware of it, sometimes less.
Love your team. Teams are great. They help you to get your work done. Thay can be a lot of fun. And they can be a pain in the butt. I had a lot of great teams and I had a lot of desperate moments as well. A team can determine whether you feel good or bad for a whole week. But you have to love them anyway.
If they make you happy, enjoy your happiness and share it. Others might have a bad week. If they drive you crazy, enjoy this very special atmosphere of Taize where you find yourself managing all kinds of crazy situtions. If they drive you desperate, do the magic thing. Let yourself inspire by the thought that your life and your week is more than your team.
You can hardly ever change the people in your team so you must love them the way they are. And you can determine whether they feel good or bad about the memory of the week with you. A week they might remember for the rest of their lives. In Taize you're not only repsonsible for having a good time for yourself but also for the time your team has with you. They might not know how much of a pain in the butt they are, they might try really hard, it might not be their fault that the situations sucks. Be compassionate with them.
And if this does not work - Sunday will come.
The rest will come. This is a nice pun actually. Of course, this is Taize and in Taize everything works, in one way or another. In Taize we learned to not worry about things too quickly because ultimately there will always be a solution. Just trust. Do your job with all your heart and be compassionate with the people you work with. Everything else will go it's way and you are most possively not able to control it anyway. «The rest will come.»
Well, in summer though rest does not always come. At least not always when you think you might need some hours of sleep, some hours without anything, some less people to cook for, a smaller Casa Box to prepare, some less phone calls in the front or a bit more silence during the silence.
|
