Welcome to the second episode in the four-part series, For Real.

These many episodes are in collaboration with Podbean, the podcast host for Keep the Heart and many others.

I'll say more about Podbean later.

Ah, the office drama, or the school staff drama, or the ministry drama, or the drama mama overall and hey there are some drama

papas too working together for hours a day several days each week provides a breeding ground for

issues some people remind me of the column they used to have on the old school report cards that said this,

does not work well with others.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.

She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from

God's Word. Now back to today's valuable study. Most of us work for a living, and that involves

spending time with others. Whether you own your own business or work for someone else or work in a ministry,

you will have people in your airspace, and where there are people, there will be problems.

So what are our options? Well, if you can't find a job where there are no people,

let's consider three ways to work peaceably with those who are in your time zone. These are just suggestions.

God will help you to think of more ways to work with others. He sees your people group and he knows them all by name.

Number one out of three in this mini episode, expect imperfection. Why, oh, why do we expect people to behave

wisely and perfectly 100% of the time when we don't? Where did we get this thinking? And who lied to us

and said that working with Christians would provide a perfect workplace environment? I know I never heard that message taught,

so I think our expectations are hanging out and we'd better hurry up and tuck them back in.

Keep expectations real. What did Job say about humankind in Job chapter 5 versus 6 through 7?

It says this. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,

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