Ahhh! I am back!

'Ello gov'na!

It's good to be back 'ome. OK. OK. Enough with the accent. Hard to type that way anyway. I completely forgot about this blog until I was thinking that I really needed a place to complain. and 'poof' I remembered.

My life sucks SO much right now I don't even know WHERE to begin!

1. We have a new pastor at church (been there 1 year now) and I don't agree with the way he is doing things. He is dong great things for the church and for God and for Jesus but I fear that he is baptizing children too quickly before they really know what they are doing. My daughter is 15 and has been saved since she was 9. She has not felt led to be baptized yet ( i think having a man hold her down underwater is what is stopping her personally...) and that's ok. But I digress....

Since we are still so few at church many of us have several hats. I have taught since all the teachers vamoosed years ago. I have taught B & C (my kids). When our old pastor's wife was there...she taught. Now she is gone and I am expected to teach again. What they don't get, and what I have been telling them for years is that I AM NOT A TEACHER. I feel NO CALL to BE a teacher. I DON'T LIKE TEACHING. My own kids will tell you!! To me a child (at any age abobe 6 or 7) should be able to sit still during class, listen, follow directions and learn.

As we all know... this does not happen.

And I get mad.

Now we HAVE added the power point projector etc. at church and I create the slides for that. I enjoy that. I look forward to that. I spend hours on the computer finding backgrounds, ideas etc (when I can...) I also create the church bulletin. Again - this is something that uses my gifts (something that is preached about a lot).

So with that in mind (and other reasons as well) we have stopped going on Wednesdays altogether. I miss this because I do like the Wednesday Bible Study for myself, but I was not allowed there since I had to "teach". So in essence, the church is keeping us away.

The sad thing is...no one has asked why we have discontinued coming on Wednesday. They might be assuming it is because of our foster son - who goes to bed at 7:30 and Bible Study starts at 7 and ends after 8.

So I get headaches every Sunday morning because I am still "expected" to teach. Have I said anything, you ask? Yes. I have told the preacher 3 times. The preacher's wife twice and one of the other deacon's wives twice as well.

Deaf ears.

Augh. More later - my head is hurting just rehashing all of this.
Shasta