Let's hear it for the team ...

I should have seen it coming, but didn't until I was already falling on my face. I had just arrived to help with some admin work when the client's rep asked me if I was on the team. "No", I replied: "I'm just temping."

I stood dumbstruck at my own stupidity. The one thing I had been frightened of doing was to somehow damage the good name of my friend's business, and here I was distancing myself from it.

Yet the upshot of that boob was to make me believe that from that moment on, actually I WAS on the team. Each candidate I met and greeted I did so firmly of the opinion that I had a job to do and do it to the best of my ability.

Now this friend and I had spoken only a week or two earlier of how neither of us is a confident networker or socializer. I'd told her how in a room full of strangers I'll gravitate to the one person I know, or find the food, at a loss how else to behave. Yet in my temporary role of 'meeter and greeter' for her client's job applicants, I donned the mantle of the role with ease. Rather than being a fumbling dullard with no conversation, I was asking them about their journey, their comfort, and helping them prepare for their interviews.

Oh how I need to do this as a Christian: to somehow understand my role and to be a credit to my Lord and my Saviour, bringing people to his Kingdom.