It has been a long time

Have you ever missed something so much it makes you crazy or unstable? If you have then you know how I have felt since September12, 2009. That is how long I have had to wait to go to another conference. Another conference with out the funding from the local church as they are angry with authority. Cut off from any meaningful worship. Unable to give Communion the highlight of a Pastor's month, to say this has been an easy time belies the true emotion.

Now those reading this will say all things will pass, that you are burdened with more than you can bear, and that God will make away. The short answer is all of it is true. Those called to the high calling know that the race is given not to those who are strong or swift, but to those who endure to the end. Again true, but fir once i wish those who have had an easy time would be still, or better yet trod the gravel of life, experience or privation then return to those who have; then we can compare notes on the subject. This is not a "bitterness" rant, it is for lack of a better phrase an essay on how things happen in life. When we were younger never did our generation believe or think we would encounter such times as now. We graduated from school, went to work (at prearranged jobs via family members) or the University and in four years started a life work. It is ironic that we are not as credit worthy, or savvy as our parents. We as a generation have no money: there is plenty of credit but on the whole no money. The IRS (individual retirement accounts) are worthless and other securities were tied to such convoluted investment schemes (fraud) they are not worth the paper they are printed on. And we are struggling to make sense of how it all went bad.
So here we are putting the pieces of lives together, raising children grandchildren, with no job or security. To young to retire and too old to start again we preserver holding on for dear life. later