We wife and I are both pretty stressed in our jobs right now. It's for different reasons, but it undermines us just the same. And it made me think of pizza.
Once upon a time she was a shift supervisor at a pizza place. She made the dough in the mornings - and could spin it in the air and everything! Even then it was a chore finding good employees, and most of them were young. It would also get quite busy and stressful at times, and you know how people are when they have to wait on their food!
I remember one of her favorite sayings at the time was: "It's only pizza." When things would get stressful at work, she would often have to remind her employees (and herself) that what they were doing was not life-or-death or vital to anything beyond getting people lunch. If customers got upset, an order was wrong, or the salad bar ran out of onions... those are all pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. Most everyone would still have homes, still have people who loved them, still have their health, and all sorts of other blessings in life.
I've been trying to remind myself of that lately. What I do at work, while important, is pretty minor. Some would refer to any issues I face as "first world problems."
If co-workers aren't doing their work (which, in turn, makes my work more demanding), "it's only pizza." I've got to be there eight hours anyway. What difference does it make what I'm doing?
It's amazing what a difference such a simple phrase can make sometimes. If only I can remember it.
And that's how I made it through several days this week.
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“Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” -John 6:35
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