How’s that for a title? Two things occurred to me when I decided to write this post – 1. I don’t write a lot of ‘Christian’ things, or at least things that most people would view as ‘Christian’ (can a blog post be Christian?), so you might be caught off guard. 2. There are going to be a lot of people who don’t like me when I’m done. Or possibly, without even reading. Actually, I’m hoping all the people who don’t like me are the ones who don’t bother to read. A while back, I started working again part time. I kept thinking of all the reasons I wasn’t going to be able to find work before that, because I wasn’t going to find summertime childcare, because my kids would always come first, because I’m inherently lazy and enjoy not getting dressed until noon. But then this opportunity came and despite my best effort to convince the Director of the agency that I suck, they still hired me. I work almost exclusively from home, and they basically demand that I put my family first, so overall, it was pretty clear that I am supposed to be there. The goal of the agency is to reach the marginalized in the community. The broken, ignored. The ones who not only who may be poor in physical assets, but who are poor in spirit, poor in community, poor in supports. I can get behind that. To love Jesus is to love those who are broken, right? People may have in their head that to love Jesus is to hate things, and well, that’…
