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I have one suit

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I recently got an email telling me to turn up for a corporate photo shoot - you know, so that we have a headshot to put on websites, namecards, LinkedIn etc.  So the instructions were, pick two suits in different colours and shirt combinations, send them to our communications department, and they'll advise me on what makes sense (or not) for the shoot. I assume my comms colleagues thought this was simple enough. How hard can that be right? Unfortunately, they didn't account for me. I wrote back, "Guys. I have a problem." "I have one suit." "Black top, black pants." "Court. Meetings. Speaking engagements. Weddings. Funerals." "One suit." "How?" My comms colleague wrote back. "When is your birthday?"  Hahaha! So anyway, I turned up with my one black suit, they stuck an orange pocket square in the jacket for colour, and we went with it! ===== The episode reminded me of a recent devotion I wrote when I was readin