"Of Members & Toes" or "The Yurt of Toes"

There are certain inefficiencies in a democratic volunteer faith based organization... Goals are ultimately met but not necessarily as planned or estimated. It is important for the congregation and board and committees to continually deliberate and vote every step of the way.

I respect passion. Passion that translates into action is good... Everyone steps on toes sometimes... Everyone has their toes stepped on sometimes. The tricky part is be mindful of, or learn to be mindful of, every one's toes and to say excuse me and apologize and try not to step on toes and piss people off. The tricky part is also not to get pissed off if your toes are stepped upon and run [hobble] screaming into the night... If you like your toes to be stepped on then that's another problem entirely.

I would also like to avoid taking action out of fear -- fear of change, fear of scarcity, fear of speed, fear of deliberation, fear of congregational meetings, fear of voting, fear of others intentions, fear of others, fear of failure, fear of stepping on toes, fear of etc...

Action based on courage trumps action based on fear.

My mantra remains -- Make friends and meet mentors at Circles & WOWs... Organic volunteering without stress is the best way to go... Finding the balance is critical or you scare away the butterflies... Don't stress out the butterflies... Try not to become or let your friends become a stressed-out scared butterfly. We are all friends.

We are a robust, mindful and kind congregation.

May we all find a place here and may we help others and may we help ourselves...