As a young boy, I spent a full year living in Great Britain.  It was a life-changing experience, exposing me to a foreign culture, and showing me the importance of adapting to new environments.  Periodically, my family would use London’s “Underground” subway system, and a phrase there regularly caught my attention:  “mind the gap”.  This alerted boarding or exiting passengers to be cautious with the space between the train and the platform edge, and I read it quite literally.  Decades later, I find that the metaphorical meaning of “mind the gap” is front and center in much of my work life.  Everywhere I turn, I see opportunities that need to be seized, things that need to be fixed, problems that need to be solved, relationships that need to be mended, and there’s redemptive purpose in them all.  What’s easy to forget, though, is that my perceptions in the workplace are just that . . . sometimes close to reality, and sometimes distorted by my own constraints.  I suspect this may be true of you too, and it echoes the advice of scripture in Matthew 7:3-5:  “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”