OS X Here I Come…and Gmail here I’ve been…

Well, it’s not like this event pushed me over the edge. I’ve been hanging out on apple.com and saving my change for over a year now; but today this very cool event demonstrated just how hilarious and asinine Microsoft is as an organization.

I was testing some settings in Outlook (Microsoft’s PIM) at work; while testing those settings Outlook sent itself a test message to make sure that the email server was connected and passing messages. So far it all makes sense. Then I get a junk mail warning from Outlook; it had detected Junk Mail and placed it in my Junk Mail folder.

Yep, you guessed it. Residing in my Outlook Junk Mail folder is an “e-mail message sent automatically by Microsoft Office Outlook while testing the settings for your account“.

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!

It’s like when two departments in a company don’t talk to one another…but this time it’s part of the code.

Well Done Microsoft!!

Not an Organization?

I receive a daily email devotional from the Henri Nouwen Society. Like any other devotional (or life itself) there are good days, great days and awesome days. My understanding is that these devotionals are gathered from Henri’s writings and Henri’s thoughts provoke my own. This morning the thought provoked had to do with thinking of the church as a mere organization.

Which, obviously, it is not (only); the church is (also, primarily and most importantly) the Body of Christ.

I work for an organization that is not the church. In this organization there are many members of the Body of Christ (aka “the church”) and many non-members. Every day, as members and non-members, we together perform many of the functions that are the ‘calling’ or ‘duty’ of the church; caring for widows and orphans, demonstrating love for one another, listening, teaching, learning, belonging, caring and empowering.

And each week we go to various buildings we call “churches” to “worship” (meaning praying, singing, preaching and fellowship). This seems an odd juxtaposition.

But this is our tradition; to parse the “work” and “worship” of the church (as if).