ROI Analysis Please

It might be hard to believe, but I’m getting worse health-wise.

My working hypothesis is that when my immune system was down, I actually acquired FRED’s flu … so rather than getting better, I’m just on the down-tick of another virus. Blech.

But all that aside … I DID make Fred laugh today, so that makes me happy.

I brought in the mail and told him, “Great news! The Smiths wrote us!”

The “Smiths” (not their real name) are these missionaries who, apparently, in 1989 (when Fred was NINETEEN) visited an Intervarsity meeting and Fred checked some sort of “stay in touch” box and now, for almost TWENTY YEARS they have written him support letters.

Fred has never supported them financially and they have never been in his “pray for missionaries” rotation.

When I came on the scene in 1993, I encouraged him to write them and explain that he is not going to support them and request that they please remove him from their mailing list. But we continue to get the letters.

I’ve written them with the same “please don’t waste Kingdom resources writing us” appeal–but we still get their letters.

Now, I am no missionary expert! But I do have a teeny-tiny-sliver of MBA/business brain cells left and I just don’t know why they continue to send these letters to us. I wish they would do a little return-on-investment analysis and say, “Hey, we should stop writing these folks.”

But even if they don’t, at least I got to make my husband chuckle.

Hope your Thursday is going well!

I’ve been reading Noel Piper’s Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God, so that’s been quite inspirational.

Back to bed–

Yours,
Tara B.