Searching for some direction..
Hello all:
The last days I’ve spent trying to figure some things out. I’m currently working my long week (four days in a row), and its now my Friday and I look forward to four days off….
I’ve had some time to sit at the computer. but I haven’t had much to write. I’ve just been doing a lot of web surfing when I’ve been sitting at the computer.
I’m not sure where I should be going with my life. I’ve prayed some, and I’ve asked others for their prayers as well. I’m impatient. I want to have a clear focus. I have the opportunity to take classes for free at Northwest College of the Bible, and I might do that. However, I don’t really feel like being a preacher is the calling I’ve received. There is nothing that is really pulling me in that direction, at all.
My wife and I talked about chaplancy last night. I’ve got a lot of experience and inroads in law enforcement and public safety, and that path might be open. I’ve been planning on finishing up my bachlors degree in Public Safety and Human Justice through Southern Chrisitan University, and their program is designed for that path, among other things.
Then there is the teaching route. I always have had the interest in teaching at the college level. Maybe history, maybe criminal justice. I don’t know.
I guess I don’t need to be in a big hurry. My wife can’t start her certificate program until the Spring Term, so she probably won’t have a job until the fall of next year. I have a lot of time to think, prepare, and be led between now and then.
-Clarke
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November 13th, 2005 at 11:30
These questions sound very familiar. I will be praying for clear direction for you and your family.
November 14th, 2005 at 0:29
Clark,
Just wanted to say keep doing what you are doing. You are a philosopher, or to put it more literally. You are a lover of Wisdom — the Holy Spirit. Your voice needs to be heard inside and outside of the Stone-Campbell Movement circles. We need to hold the tension between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ and we need you to help us do it in these chaotic times. For Christ was both conversative and liberal. There is a good and there is an evil. There is heaven and there is hell. However, Christ taught us that we can transcend labels of conservative and liberal. There is a higher road, and I think/believe you are seeking it. Remember though, the way of Christ and the Triune God is always the way of peace and the way of prayer.
Peace!
Gp
November 16th, 2005 at 11:19
Mark and Gabe:
Thanks for your positive comments. They are very helpful.
-Clarke