Fill-in-the-blank

A couple weeks ago, I had my best staff meeting ever. I'm shifting the focus of our meetings to include more time for team building and bonding.
Step one: change staff meeting time from 6:30am to 9pm.
Step two: change staff meeting location from stark, cold, white room with plastic chairs to my living room with couches, Christmas lights, colors, and carpet... cozy.
Step three: implement agendas, games and initiatives, devotion, prayer time, chill time, being still time.

The fill-in-the-blank activity:
Each person had 15 minutes to respond to a list of various words and phrases. They could only write as much as much as would fit on the dotted line next to the word. (Some got creative and turned the paper upside down to write on both sides of the line or abbreviated several words.)

Responses:

• Everyone has..................................................
• an iPod/cell phone
• a heart/soul/feelings
• something great about them
• the potential to be someone great - they just don't know it
• hands
• eyes

• Love letter....................................................

• I often write them to myself, then send them off and pretend to get exc.
• (s) to Jesus make me happy
• the Bible
• someone should write me one please
• are really fun to receive, fun to write, and embarrassing to deliver
• (s) are something I have a hard time writing
• from KC Gilliland, football player, SO high school

• I'm annoyed by.............................................
• people who don't get it.
• people who judge me.
• mean people
• loud noises that wake me in the a.m.
• disrespectful actions towards others
• people who refuse to flush cuz I hate finding surprises when I lift the seat.
• cigarette smoke. I'd rather smell cow manure.

• Why can't we................................................
• speak Spanish?
• be friends, why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends - the guy I had a crush on sang this to me in 7th grade and I felt a connection.
• love each other unconditionally and more than ourselves?
• just find a truck full of $ to pay for school?
• just live at NCC and not go to school?
• take care of each other?
• all dance naked in the quad around a huge bonfire?

• Secrets.........................................................
• are for people who have something to hide
• count people's freckles & look in their eyes
• ah, good? bad? Both. Depends.
• don't make friends, but they keep them.
• I'm not good at keeping them - don't trust me.
• are funny cuz some things are really dumb to keep secret. Others are legitimate.
• special.

• The Tooth Fairy.........................................
• is a lie.
• didn't have much money.
• should leave more money. Really, only 25 cents?
• should scare more kids than she does. Think about it.
• was not very, very good to me.
• isn't real but I thought I saw her once and made up an elaborate story that I told my mom the next morning.
• was cool when i was a child. Quarters in the cup.
• left me silver dollars under my pillow. Daaaad.

• I've never......................................................
• done anything.
• been in love.
• been on a missions trip out of the U.S.
• touched a cow.
• been to Africa.
• been 21, but when I have I'm going gambling.
• jumped out of a plane.
• owned a cat, been fishing, or been snowboarding.