Its been a while.. its been super busy! I cannot belive its the end of July. As a teacher... after July 4th comes & goes your mind immediately tries to trick you and says "YOUR SUMMER IS OVER!!!"
Realistically its not at all! Its about half way.. but you can imagine the second 5 weeks are not nearly as relaxing as the first 5!
Well more updates later on our summer (more flowers growing, hanging out, our west coast vacation).. but right now I wanted to update you on our Milwaukee trip!
Every year we go to Milwaukee the same weekend for Mikes works meeting ~ Northwestern Mutual. At this meeting - about 11,000 people travel from around the United States and join together for both fun & business/learning sessions. There is a garden party at the Milwaukee Zoo on Sunday and a concert on Tuesday. This year it was Tim McGraw!
While we were at the meeting I had this realization that I need to be more open to people and friendly. I typically shy away from being the first to introduce myself or start at conversation. However, when dealing with interns or new financial reps I realized I need to be the one who introduces myself and gets to know them. This is something that is often hard for me to do. I want to be able to display the characters of Christ to people and I would like to think that he talked to anyone and everything, smiled when he walked past, and truly cared about people. Of course there are great examples in the bible as well of how Jesus cared for all people regardless of status, religion and moral standards.
I realized all this while sitting at the Tim McGraw concert. There was an empty seat to my left and then a man in the following seat. He was alone. Here he was at this concert, with 11,000 in attendance, with his 'northwestern mutual family' and sitting alone. It made me really sad. To the point of tears. I hate when people are alone. Maybe he was content with it but I sure wasn't! I also hate when I see people eating alone..
Overall I am so thankful to have loving family and friends who make sure I am not alone in a room of 11,000.. I am beyond blessed and need to remember that more..
<3 Alisha
Here is an interesting article about the annual meeting in milwaukee!
