A different kind of day - rendez-vous no 3

Yesterday was the big day of national strike against the government that we elected last year. They want to keep their election promises, the rogues !

Anyway - mistakenly believing that there would be problems with the trams and buses (there weren't) I switched my afternoon at the student centre to today. 

Now prayer would be good for today because we are going to finalise the publicity for the mission team week so that posters, invitations and exhibition displays can be printed. 

We need prayer for wisdom in choosing wording etc., but also because the software I use is of the easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, non-graphic-artist, no-learning-curve variety. The software is very easy and quick to use but that also implies a certain ... inflexibility. 

And I am partially colour-blind ! When people say "Can we have a darker blue ?", they may get purple. And I may not know...

This tends to mean that there is a gap between people's wishes for the leaflets and what the software and I can actually achieve. So today we will be living on the fault-line of compromise between desire and reality ( ! ) 

Never a comfortable place to pitch one's tent.

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