This makes me mad:
Parents expressing outrage after a teacher is kicked out of her public school for hanging a picture of President Bush next to pictures of other presidents in her classroom.
Politics can indeed be taken too far. The man is our current president, not just a candidate. Get a clue, people.
I’m no longer sure ‘moving’ up to Pennsylvania last year was the right thing to do. Taking CTI’s offered full-time managerial position seemed like a good career move, and it was certainly a step towards independence … though perhaps one now lost by moving back home.
On the other hand, maybe this is where I belong for now. I’m only now regaining my ministry-outlook on life. Partially as a result of me living 1.5 hours away, our family singing ministry ground to a halt. We’ve done one or two experimental forays back into that realm, one of them last Sunday — we sang “He’s Still Waiting By The Well” by Greater Vision.
It was actually kind of funny: Alley, Tiffany, Tim and I were supposed to sing “Fly Away” by FFH, because as the result of yet another substitution, Alley’s father-in-law realized he was scheduled to play both special music and an offertory on the same Sunday (and we couldn’t have that). We had played with several songs — Testify To Love by Avalon, and You Found Me by FFH, but we meshed best on Fly Away. So since His Way didn’t carry that accompaniment track, I ordered it from christianbook.com. Turns out they use UPS to ship overnight … but UPS doesn’t deliver on Saturdays. Yup, you guessed it: our overnight shipping dragged on into four-day shipping. Sidenote: the Christianbook.com customer service rep apologized to me for the mixup and offered to refund the shipping when I returned the CD … so don’t think they’re evil or anything.
Where was I going with that? Ah yes: ministry-outlook. I don’t think I’d be content to just live a normal American Dream life: job, wife, kids, vacations, old, nursing home, dead. I need to do something that matters, or benefits a cause I believe in. That’s part of why I decided to work for StewTech. It’s also part of why we might be going on the road again as the Bergey Family Singers or something like that. And why I’m going to renew my efforts to record a piano CD. More on that in another post, though.
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