Favorite Part of my Workday

Every morning when my alarms screams at me to get up, after a minute of hesitation, because all I want to do is close my eyes and roll over, I tell myself how excited I am and how blessed I am to get to go to work.

Working at LPM is a dream come true, so I’m still pinching myself every morning.

I don’t want to paint the wrong picture that leads you to think LPM is perfect, because it most definitely is not. We are humans with real issues, however, we strive to do our best and work towards excellence and that is reflected daily at the ministry. I definitely want to be a part of something that works towards excellence, don’t you?

Since my move to LPM, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about what it’s like to work there, is everyone as genuine as they seem, what do y’all do for lunch and so on and so forth. My most recent question was what is my favorite part of my workday? I love answering these questions because the answers bring me such joy!

Honestly, my co-workers bring me such joy.

And when your co-workers bring you much joy, your favorite part of the day, naturally, is when you all get to be together.

When do we all get to be together? For lunch!

What can we say? We love Jesus and we love food!

You know what is so funny? I brought my lunch to work my very first day of work. It was a frozen Lean Cuisine and guess what? It’s still sitting in the freezer.

I learned very early on that part of the culture of LPM is that we go eat together and enjoy each other’s company every day. Every day except for Monday’s when we stay in and fast, pray and have Bible study, which, by the way, is equally as wonderful.

At first I wasn’t sure about this because WHOA, the money, and WHOA the calories!

But, here are my two observations:

1) What I spend for lunch each day makes up for the fact that I don’t buy many groceries and rarely eat dinner.

2) Because we typically eat a rather large meal at lunch, most, if not all, of my calories are consumed during that meal, because again, I’m not hungry when I get home. Most nights, an apple will do.

Basically, instead of my finances and calories being spread out by three different meals, they are all filtered into one. I keep my breakfast pretty light.

Also? What we eat in calories at lunch, we most definitely laugh off. I have yet to attend a lunch that I don’t leave with a stomachache induced by the laughter, and not the food.

And although we rotate the same five restaurants weekly, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. We are most definitely creatures of habit. We keep saying we’re going to branch out and for a week experiment with new restaurants, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

There is no rule or regulation that states you must attend LPM lunch everyday, not at all, but I must be honest and tell you that I’d rather not miss an LPM lunch. It’s my favorite, most relaxed, fun, hilarious time of the day.

Lunch is a blessing in every way you can imagine.

What is your favorite part of the day?