O.K., O.K., for those of you who have asked, now you get the answer:
I had the awesome privilege of working with the Staff of The ROCK of Wilmington in North Carolina. Hardworking, dedicated, passionate-for-Christ people who NEVER knew when to stop talking shop. Lunch times and break times I would try to introduce a topic unrelated to ministry or work and after a sentence or two someone would take us back into the workplace shop talk.
We had a HUGE event coming up and everyone wanted to have their area of ministry at its very best so, being stressed out, we started whining and complaining about work to one another. This spilled over into times and meals away from the office, too. I went to my office and prayed, “Lord, please give me something to get us laughing!” Well, this is what He gave me….
Sung to the tune of the Oscar Meyer Weiner song:
“Oh, I wish I had a healthy boundary,
Oh, that is what I’d truly like to see,
‘Cause if I had a healthy boundary,
Then everyone would be in love with me!”
(Hey, if it’s not spiritual enough for you complain to the Lord…He gave it to me!)
I then became the “Self-Appointed Mental Health Advocate” to the staff. Any time anyone slipped into shop talk at an inappropriate time I would sing this song. Soon, all we had to do was start to hum the tune to one another and we’d laugh and change the subject.
It is easy for me to get intense with ministry responsibilities and no one loves me when I am intense! Kingdom work is hard, intense, and fulfilling, but hey, sometimes the Lord says to us, “Go get a life! I’m God and you’re not!”
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I love it… could you call and sing that to me once in a while? So true that when you do what you love and love what you do it is hard not to talk about it all the time! But if all you talk about is that, pretty soon it takes over and you become an all around, boring person who does not know how to talk about anything else. I know, I have been there… I hope to NEVER go back!
You probably should call every week over the next 6 months and sing that song to me.
Oh, Lord, help me keep a life!
and we still think of you. anytime work talk comes up at lunch someone says, “where’s lana to sing to us.” my favorite was when you would leave them on my voicemail. I remember one I didn’t erase for a very long time. just played it whenever I needed it. i wish I still had it. oh that there were some way to recover it or re-record it or something. ( 
hint, hint)
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At last! The Healthly Boundaries song, I love it! I know exactly what you’re singing about. This is so true…please sing it to us as often as we need it.
I love this song!
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We have gotten better about this…well, maybe not. If you were to call any of our cell phones around 12:30 and sing this song to us it would be appropriate!
We got the gift package you sent to us! Thank you so much - it’s the first pink blanket for Rylee! Reagan LOVED it and I took his picture with it. I’ll e-mail it to you in a couple of days. Love you!
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Great song! I miss you so much! I am excited you have a blog now I can keep up with you.
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