In my line of work, I meet new people on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Today, I met Bob.<\/p>\n
Bob just retired from the military and was hired by our school district to secure grant funding for programs that support children and families locally. Since I manage a number of initiatives through a federal grant, we met to talk about those efforts.<\/p>\n
It was a great conversation. I love it when people are willing to share a little of their background. Bob has lived both in the United States and Germany. He looked like he was in his late 20\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s but I found out he and his wife have grown children. That must mean he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little older.<\/p>\n
What I like about Bob is his obvious passion for life. He loves a challenge and certainly has found it in grant writing. Being a grant writer of sorts myself, I know the challenges and pleasures of that work. You have to be an expert on many things, or have a keen sense of where to gather information if you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n
I am the one who knows how to gather information.<\/p>\n
Bob, on the other hand, impresses me as a man who is an expert in many things. He says he loves to organize and train. He will definitely need those skills in the work he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing now.<\/p>\n
Bob is also a man of faith. I sensed that what he does in his work and life is supported strongly by his spiritual base. He had a keen awareness of blessings in his life and spoke of his good fortune to be married to a wonderful, supportive woman.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a better person today because of my meeting with Bob. It will be a pleasure to watch him be successful in his new found work. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re fortunate to have him in the District.<\/p>\n
My wish for you today<\/strong>: That you take the chance to enrich your life by talking with someone you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know well that seems to have a passion for life. Listen to their story. Find the good things about that person and be blessed by that experience. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a better person for it.<\/p>\n ~Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my line of work, I meet new people on a regular basis. Today, I met Bob. Bob just retired from the military and was hired by our school district to secure grant funding for programs that support children and families locally. Since I manage a number of initiatives through a federal grant, we met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-friendship","category-jobs-careers","category-life-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}