“December 2: Think of someone who is an example of Christlike service. Highlight their example on social media”— a service prompt from my Church’s campaign to love and serve others during the month of December — to quite literally light the world. My Ryan was the first person who came to mind at the thought of an example of Christlike service, and I initially wrote this post as my response to share. If only I would’ve made just a little more time then to share it…ah well. You know my fave motto: better late than never. 🙂
He’s currently sitting across the room on the couch working — writing a year-end review/report of his work life in 2019 for the firm. I wish I could steal his computer and write the report for him. My version would go something like this:
You saw Ryan come into work daily and take care of his attorney to-do’s. He showed up smiling with his defining, refreshing sense of confidence and calm. He refined your docs, trained your new attorney and helped you close your deals. But what you didn’t see was that on the regular, he was responding to his other clients, too – his little girls (a nightmare, an accident, a thirsty throat) – after he stayed up till 2:00 working for you. He started his days with prayer since he knows the source of true strength, and that the only way to truly make something of your hustle is by being humble. He gave you 100%, and well, he gave us 100, too. That means he was giving 200 to both of our worlds, I know — double amounts of his energy, intelligence, empathy — a seemingly impossibility for a lot in the professional world. Because you know what they say: you can’t really do it all, can you? Your spirit-mind-body, your family, and your career? Something has to fall…so they say. Call it defying odds or just determining that you will indeed do it all, regardless of the required juggle. Either way, Ryan has quietly done it all this year, just as he did last year. And the year before that and the year before that. Ryan has been a husband and father for the entirety of his professional schooling and career, and without me clueing you in right now to his real world, you might conclude that he comes into work daily to take care of his attorney to-do’s – to refine your docs, to train your new attorney, to help you close your deals.
Pat him on the back for what he does for you; I’ll kiss him for what he does for us. With the odds of time and energy against him, he has stayed God-fearing and giving, two ways to serve a particular client yoked to his side, so grateful for his faith and strength: me.
2019 year-end report, over and out.
