good advice!

Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you. Hebrews 13:17

[haha, i've never quoted the bible before. i don't actually know how to do it! pretty sure i'm not supposed to use quotation marks. and i think the verse numbers thing is supposed to be after, not before the quotation. but is it supposed to be in parenthesis or something? hard to look up when you don't even know what these things are called!]

i like this quotation. i think very often we don't have confidence in our leaders. we double guess them and think we know better when we generally don't know the whole story! and, unless they are corrupt, i think they generally try to do well by us.

speaking of which. this isn't just leaders like bosses or team captains. it's our president, cops, parents, doctors, anyone in charge, anyone who is responsible for someone else. it's good to keep in mind. we should respect our leaders more. (i'm not at all saying that we should trust them blindly.)

the second half of the verse is just as good as the first. it's important to be a JOY to work with, and to work for. i feel this way a lot. it may be my job to serve you or whatever, but it is not my job to take your shit. and the more annoying you are, the less likely i will do a good job for you. i'm not so petty that i will purposely do a bad job, but you best believe i will not go out of my way to do you any favors. and yeah, i will drag my feet, and not do as good of a job. because i'm a human and you're an asshole.