It's nice, simple architecture with lots of light, a couple of conversation couches and a tree or two.
As I exited to the corridor, a sheet of white paper on the wall caught my eye,
Free Exercise Equipment
This was not an employee bulletin board where you might expect to see personal items for sale or trade. It was the middle of a corporate space, with scotch tape holding the paper to an elegant strip of tastefully stained walnut.
Free Exercise Equipment
I read it again and tried to get the context. It was on a wall immediately adjacent to the open atrium stairway. It's 3 stories of granite steps held in place by an artfully positioned suspension system. For a moment, I considered climbing the stairs just to see what kind of exercise equipment must be on display two floors up.
Then it dawned on me and I smiled. The stairs were the free exercise equipment. You don't need an expensive healthclub membership to climb stairs at work or anywhere else. It's free. What a clever way to associate productive value with something already in our midst.
Free Life-Coach Manual
That got me to thinking - what other titles or printed tent cards might we place next to a Bible?
Free Relationship Restoration Guide
Sometimes people hear or see the word "Bible" and immediately recoil or get suspicious. What is it going to make me do ? What am I going to have to change?
But there is so much comfort and reassurance and affirmation in the Bible. God loves us where we are at - foot of the stairs or top of the stairs.
Free Map to Hope, Joy and Love
I usually take the stairs in that atrium anyway. I'm accustomed to it. It takes a little extra time and cardio, but its more refreshing than standing in an elevator. I actually feel better after taking the stairs. Not everybody thinks so. They might need a little coaxing. Or a maybe just a different way of thinking about it.
It's still the same set of stairs, but once you try it, you're surprised that someone had to talk you into it.
What do you believe?
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