NO Fadeout Update

Good friend Dorothy read the blog and proudly told me that her NO hadn't faded out as much as mine. Then she confessed that while I was gone, she agreed to go with the High School youth group on their mission trip this week. Which she also arranged. And that, by the way, she also agreed to volunteer for VBS--but only to do registration and refreshments because she had to provide transportation for her teenage daughter who can't drive herself alone yet and she'd meet herself coming and going and so she might as well stay all morning and...

BUSTED!

When she gets back from the mission trip an intervention is in order. Probably involving wine, chocolate and maybe pedicures.

NO Fadeout

Good friend Dorothy and I have an agreement: whenever we are tempted to overextend ourselves, we remind each other that it's time to have that international "NO" symbol re-tatooed on our foreheads to fend off the appeals.

Ahem. Going on vacation seems to have erased that NO from my forehead. Must be the jet lag. Since I got back I have agreed to:

Join the Discipleship Team at my church;

Help plan the Sunday School class studies for the class we have been attending;

Join the Stewardship Team at Presbytery which involves visiting a Tall Steeple Church session meeting and asking (begging) them to increase their benevolence giving;

Help a pastor friend find an intellectual property lawyer to help his church trademark the name of its annual community event;

And, last but not least, attend the Big Event planning meeting in Atlanta for RGBP, Inc. next month.

When I see Dorothy later this week I'll find out if her NO held up any better than mine.

I'm betting not.