Man, you guys are watching my moves really carefully! I can't even sign on without hearing about it somewhere. I knew the jig was up when Sep called me out on JTT's date thread.
So I have some good news, I am going to actively pursue a side job... really make it my primary for now. I'm going to be working for a cabinet dealer. It's not ideal, but neither is this economy so I'm taking what I can get.
Outside of that, I've been through an evolution of feelings about my career and the path I'm taking. I'm beginning to realize that I really hate organized religion. Having worked in full-time ministry at a number of churches for the last 9 years, this is beginning to become a conflict of interest, haha!
I'm known as one of the fundy holy-rollers on here, and that's ok... not much I can do about that. But I think you'll find that I hate going to church just as much as most of you. It doesn't change my faith, but instead strengthens it. I'm beginning to realize that organized religion is like a false template that people made to make you feel like you're doing the right thing... example: you're told to go to church, you pray, you read the bible every now and then, and you live life just like the next man, right? Wrong! I think there's a lot more to it than that.
Long story short, I'm going to work for this cabinet dealer to pay the bills, but still seriously consider what all of this religion stuff means. My faith is not lessened by this whole experience I've had (just in the last few days alone), but it is definitely changing. I want to get back to the root of the church... I want to know what it looked like before we threw the wrench in the works, and I'm going to study hard to get some answers.
AND >>> for now, I'm back
And after only 5 days