Personality shot

I have to be honest with you - working on ec is FUN. Not only is it fun to watch it go from being an idea to a final magazine, it's also a lot of fun to work with my team. A good basketball team wears the same jersey. But if everybody had the same talents and personality, it would be a very one-dimensional team. It's good for a team to have somebody who's seven feet tall—but it's also good to have a quick little guard who can zip around in the tall trees, right? I'm grateful that the ec team is multi-talented.

Yesterday, Mandy, Emily, and I were all pretty much dressed the same with brown tops and khaki trousers, but didn't take long for us to discover that we not only all had different socks on, they were all crazy-different. After I studied the picture a little bit I decided this is a pretty good personality shot of our team.

So here's a picture of our "team" - the hand knitted, crazy-bright socks? They're mine. My job is color and image and getting your attention visually. The super-cute peacock-blue argyles are Emily, our copy editor - she's organized and stylish with lots of clever takes on things. And the happy little cartoon-animal socks are full of surprises and belong to Mandy, who takes the same 60 pages each month and makes them different and interesting to read every time.



Ok, I just made that up. But all of the things I said about our team are true, even if we didn't plan to wear socks that reflect it. And there's a good lesson here, as well - not all of us have the same gifts. It takes our entire team to make ec what it is. A guy named Paul said something about this a long time ago; we can't all be feet or eyes or ears.

Find your niche - in God's kingdom and in your life. Being a little bit different really is okay.