Coming and Going

The other day I caught myself coming and going. I forwarded an email from my work address to my personal address, and my automatic response from home ended up in my work inbox:

Hello Friends,

This is an automatic email to let you know that due to several work
and volunteer commitments, my response to your email may be delayed a
few days. Thank you for your patience. If your communication is
time-sensitive, please feel free to give me a call.

Katie

Then when I arrived home that evening, I saw that my automated email from home had triggered my automated out-of-office reply at work warning that I was at a conference and would be delayed in responding. As my esteemed father would say, "Ye gads!"

Don't worry, you're not out of the loop. I'll blog in the future about the traipsing that is pulling me every which way. In the meantime, I wanted to give you a little glimpse of how I spend 40+ hours a week: Here is a blog post from work about one of our interns spending a lunch hour with Joni (our founder) and a visitor. What makes this lunch date remarkable is that all three are quadrapeligics whose lives have been transformed by knowing Jesus Christ. 

Thanksgiving 2010 was particularly difficult for my family as we had just lost my grandfather three weeks previously. My aunt shared at the time that we can't appreciate the "high highs" of life without going through the "low lows." I think of that statement almost every day at Joni and Friends.