Well well well…

So I am here at work about to start teaching.  Things have been rather strange for the past month.  I started my wonderful new job but there have been some glitches.  Our brand new building wasn’t ready in time for our regular school to begin on schedule.  So we have been doing a night school for the 4th-9th graders for the past 4 weeks in the old elementary building.  This means that teachers are working from 12:00 to 8:00 pm.  Needless to say, that schedule has been taxing all of us.  I have officially missed 4 Wednesday night services-2 of which I was supposed to preach at.  As of right now we are supposed to be in next week with a normal schedule.  So that means we have to make up 2 work days beginning tomorrow.  So tomorrow’s workday will be from 8:00 am- 8:00 pm.  YAY!  Another 12 hour day!  I have to be positive about it though because 12-14 hour days were normal for me at my last job.  So I’m gonna stay all smiles for now. 

So that’s work.  Now on to more interesting things.  Lately, friends and family have had a lot of questions in their minds.  A lot of them have been questioning their faith and rationalizing faith based queries with a light of cynicism casting a shadow on their already doubtful minds.  Now granted because of these queries and answers, or lack thereof, questions have arisen in my mind as well.  Questions and beyond that…un-hopeful disappointment.  I was talking with the hub the other day and he were discussing a certain big name minister who has recently fallen from grace and what that does to critics of the Christian faith.  I told him, “It makes me wanna go one of two ways.  I can either be like, ‘Why even try when other people who hold more spotlight than we do mess things up for us all?’ or ‘Hey, I’m gonna be accountable for me and do my best.’”  The fact of the matter is that I am not truly offended when ministers “fall.”  But that too might be a bad sign because I almost expect it because it has been so common.  What does scare me is the lack of vision, insight, and foresight that the church has in today’s world.  I truly don’t believe that we realize the times and seasons in which we live.  And because of that, we are in even more danger than we realize.  

I’ve got to go and teach right now but I’ll finish this later.  Thanks…