Things have been particularly hectic lately, what with the extra shifts required of us to support the New Orleans Saints in their Super Bowl victory. Sistertech just received the proofs of her magnum opus, The Book of Uncommon Prayer. She’s found more than a few typos, mostly hers, in which she erroneously refers to the book as The Uncommon Book of Prayer. Liz snickered, “Can’t you even remember the title of your own book?” When she saw that she’d hurt my feelings she said, “Now, Sistertech! I bet you’re going to tell me that the book is indeed uncommon, were you not? No wonder you’ve flip flopped on the title!”
Liz, you might know her as Elizabeth, has always been a source of comfort and encouragement to my team, but most of all to me. She’s been an early adopter, as they say, with an uncanny talent for leading by example. It’s no wonder The One In Charge put her to such good use right before The Big Product Release.
As usual, Liz was right. No wonder I sometimes refer to my own book as The Uncommon Book of Prayer. It’s funny, though. I forgot to tell the reader what was truly uncommon about the book. One of Sistertech’s bad habits, I’m afraid. She assumes others are as cutting edge and au curant as she is. This problem of being on different wavelengths, if you will, is something she ought to have factored in. After all, I deal with this nearly every client call. How could these people not have carefully followed Sistertech’s Ten Commandments? What did you thinkwas going to happen when you knocked your triple latte on to your laptop or when you washed the memory stick left in a pocket of your 501 Levi’s?
The book is at press, as they say — what a lovely ring: “at press” — so I will have to produce a supplementary tome. And quickly. I truly did not take into account that some of Sistertech’s readers would not understand the driving force behind The Book of Uncommon Prayer. That is, the force in addition to The One In Charge.
What force? Why, the sustaining spirituality of the workforce. It’s a rather complicated topic; too long for a single blog post, but here it is in broad strokes:
1. All that I am comes from The One In Charge.
2. There is no separation within Sistertech of who she is and what she does.
3. All that I do flows from what I am. (You’ll recall that I am an angel. For us, our being and are doing are not nearly as distinct as they are with mere humans. No offense. I’m just sayin’…)
4. Thus, as a highly evolved spiritual being, all my thoughts and actions are imbued, albeit not to the same power or degree, with the unmistakeable spiritual characteristics of The One In Charge.
5. Therefore, my work, be it mundane or exciting, be it witnessed or done privately, be it done remuneratively or gratis, it all is done as a sign and symbol of The One In Charge’s work in creating me and the ongoing work of drawing me closer to The One.
6. As you have gathered by now, Sistertech’s work is in the tech industry.
Drumroll!
7. Hence, my every activity in the tech industry is a prayer, a devotion, a meditation. Sistertech makes no distinction, then, between her “spiritual work” and her “work work” in the tragic way so very many humans do.
Liz is right. What Sistertech is doing is uncommon for most humans. Unfortunately, I took this for granted in the Preface to The Book of Uncommon Prayer. This shall be remedied ASAP.