Email is a wonderful way to communicate quickly. However if you are like me your inbox can get pretty full with “junk mail.” And sometimes if we are not careful we can send an e-mail to the wrong person. I recently read a funny story that illustrates what I mean...
“An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.
Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything is prepared for your arrival tomorrow.”
Life is too short to take yourself too seriously. When was the last time you did something foolish that you can now laugh at? Here is the challenge, share that with someone else, it just might brighten their day...and it will keep you humble!
Loving and Leading,
Jeff Powell
