From Misfit to Perfect Fit
Faith@Work is a Navigators sponsored monthly luncheon for business women in Albuquerque, NM. Its mission is helping business and professional women live out their faith more intentionally in their workplaces. We do this through several different means:
• Presenting challenging messages each month from local practitioners who are learning how to live on purpose for God.
• Promoting, developing and implementing Bible Studies in the workplace for women across the city.
• Recruiting, training and utilizing volunteers in a variety of ways to reach out and connect with other business women each month at the luncheons.
Faith@Work Message, November 21, 2011; "From Misfit to Perfect Fit" Albuquerque, NM
Speaker: Kettie Robinson, Parts Manager for a local auto dealership
• Presenting challenging messages each month from local practitioners who are learning how to live on purpose for God.
• Promoting, developing and implementing Bible Studies in the workplace for women across the city.
• Recruiting, training and utilizing volunteers in a variety of ways to reach out and connect with other business women each month at the luncheons.
Faith@Work Message, November 21, 2011; "From Misfit to Perfect Fit" Albuquerque, NM
Speaker: Kettie Robinson, Parts Manager for a local auto dealership
What is a misfit? Webster’s Dictionary defines the term as “a person poorly adjusted to his environment.” My friend, Kettie Robinson defines it as a woman who works in the male-dominated field of car dealerships, who never felt comfortable around women, but wasn’t accepted among men. A woman who went to church but didn’t grasp the concept of a personal relationship with Jesus. A woman who believed God was there, but wasn’t sure He had time to waste on someone like her.
Kettie believed that she was the poster child for misfits of the world.
In her early years as a manager in the automotive industry she was told that she had “taken a good job away from a deserving man.” She was teased, sexually harassed and ignored as a serious contributor. In order to be taken seriously, she says she “uglied herself up” as much as possible, including her outward appearance, her behavior, and her language. She became a “drill-seargent” towards her employees, treating them as harshly as she had been treated. In her own words, she became “spiritually bankrupt.” At night, she would often cry herself to sleep; empty of love and compassion.
So how does someone like this find a perfect fit in this world? When the world beats us down, how do we find our true selves? Kettie found hers through a woman she met at church, Barbara Hilford. Barbara showed Kettie how to discover the depth of God’s love for her through reading her Bible, journaling, and getting back to a long lost gift she had for…poetry.
In the transformation that began in Kettie’s heart, she found herself no longer praying for God to take her out of the job she was in, but instead praying for the people in her workplace. She prayed for her own attitude towards others. When Barbara invited her to Faith@Work, she fell in love with the women there; women who accepted her for who she was. Now she brings others with her every time she comes.
Kettie’s words of encouragement to others who may feel like misfits:
God was rejected so that we can be accepted!
He wants us to let Him in so He can be a part of our lives.
When we belong to God, through a personal relationship with Jesus, then we belong to the family of believers. We are no longer misfits.
We have a role to fill…helping other “misfits” discover how they fit!
To reserve a copy of the audio CD of this message, email Rebecca Apodaca at apodacar@comcast.net.
Kettie believed that she was the poster child for misfits of the world.
In her early years as a manager in the automotive industry she was told that she had “taken a good job away from a deserving man.” She was teased, sexually harassed and ignored as a serious contributor. In order to be taken seriously, she says she “uglied herself up” as much as possible, including her outward appearance, her behavior, and her language. She became a “drill-seargent” towards her employees, treating them as harshly as she had been treated. In her own words, she became “spiritually bankrupt.” At night, she would often cry herself to sleep; empty of love and compassion.
So how does someone like this find a perfect fit in this world? When the world beats us down, how do we find our true selves? Kettie found hers through a woman she met at church, Barbara Hilford. Barbara showed Kettie how to discover the depth of God’s love for her through reading her Bible, journaling, and getting back to a long lost gift she had for…poetry.
In the transformation that began in Kettie’s heart, she found herself no longer praying for God to take her out of the job she was in, but instead praying for the people in her workplace. She prayed for her own attitude towards others. When Barbara invited her to Faith@Work, she fell in love with the women there; women who accepted her for who she was. Now she brings others with her every time she comes.
Kettie’s words of encouragement to others who may feel like misfits:
God was rejected so that we can be accepted!
He wants us to let Him in so He can be a part of our lives.
When we belong to God, through a personal relationship with Jesus, then we belong to the family of believers. We are no longer misfits.
We have a role to fill…helping other “misfits” discover how they fit!
To reserve a copy of the audio CD of this message, email Rebecca Apodaca at apodacar@comcast.net.
