Yesterday I was filled with both excitement and moral angst when offered temporary employment with a mining company. Excitement at the paychecks to come and so that bills can be paid. Angst because I have to say that I've never seen anything positive come from mining. They strip the land, raping it for minerals that we use in products we don't need. At least they are legislated here in the US but in Africa and elsewhere they pollute souls not just the land with their corrupt politics and Chinese influence -- don't' get me started.
But, I need money and so I agreed to work for them on a temp basis until I found a permanent position. I was open and candid about that fact with them and with the temp agency. I was to start work tomorrow. All morning while trying to sleep in all i could think about is how my entire career has been filled with positions that help people and tried to change the world for good and now I'm going to work for a company that rapes the earth for a profit.
Well, now I don't have to worry about selling myself to evil. The temp agency that arranged my temp work was also to arrange an interview for a permanent position. Long story short, they decided to arrange the interview for the permanent position but then take away the temp work. Moral dilemma solved - financial dilemma still here.
I'll just trust Alicia Keys that every thing's gonna be alright. Well, Alicia Keys, Kevin, and my mother. Oh, and that whole Romans 8:28 thing or for the more obscure reference Nahum 1:7 - read it. Ooh and Proverbs 3:5. Good thing I've had lots of practice at this trusting God thing.
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I was about to wonder about the state of your soul when you threw out the trusting Alicia Keys reference. I was preparing a sermon in my mind but then stopped....because i saw the trusting God section and i remembered that i was baptist.
Silly girl, you may be in the habit of developing friends with bad theology - but on the matter of trusting God my theology is as perfect as a human may asertain. I've had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of practice. Lots of theological mental assent that is - we're still working out the actual application, I fear it will be a life long process.
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