Church and social justice

This last weekend Tina and I joined Holy Covenant Church in Charlotte NC.   We have truly found our church home.   What I really like about this church is that it is very biblical based and also very active in social justice issues.  I am finding that social justice issues really matter to me in life now.

Photo take by Debbie Davis

 Recently I have chosen to become involved with Scout for Equality.  I am going to be a Council Organizer.   It has been about 22 years sense I have really had much to do with the Boy Scouts.     I am hoping that Scouts for Equality and I will be able to change the anti LGBT position that the Boy Scouts of America has chosen to take.  As I have written in past posts I have pretty strong views about how the BSA can make a very positive change in a boy’s life.  All boys should have a opportunity to experience what the BSA can offer.    If you too would like to help make a change please check out Scouts for Equality.

Road Trip

We had a wonderful weekend at my 2nd Home. J   We left Rock Hill Friday morning and got up to New Hope pretty late in the evening.   Like usual pulling up the driveway was like pulling up to home.  This is the 1^st time that I have seen snow on the ground there though.   It was just a light dusting but very pretty.

Saturday was a special day for Christa because it was her birthday.  We got a wonderful salted caramel cake, it tasted so good!  

One of the other reasons was we also needed to make plans for Brenna’s wedding in December.   We are going to have all family that is coming to the wedding stay there, as well as we are going to do the wedding there too.  

On Sunday we took Brenna to Virginia Beach to spend her spring break with Monty her fiance.   We got a late start so when we finally got back to New Hope it was close to 1 am in the morning.  We were dragging Monday morning for sure.

In total we drove a little over 2000 miles this long weekend.   The only bad thing that happened this weekend was I broke off a 1/3 of my tooth.   I had been babying it until we got insurance so I could get a crown on it.   

Would you rather be right or have a relationship?

This last week has been pretty hectic.  We have been searching for a new car for Tina and out to get the best deal for the money.  We have test driven several and came close to buying on the weekend.   But the dealership and I couldn't come to an agreement on the price.  

I explored the idea of going back to school to finish my degree.   If I was to continue I would need 7 classes left to graduate.   I feel like it is a good time to finish it only because I have not found a job as of yet.   However is sure isn't a good time for it financially though.    I still have not made up my mind as of yet but today I am leaning on not continuing though.

On Sunday we went to church that we are thinking may be our new church home.   When we were in the new member’s inquiry class, the pastor made an interesting comment that really hit home for me.

She was explaining about how the UCC churches when through a time of struggle were some churches didn't want to be all inclusive like some were.   The two sides couldn't really come to term with each other.  At one of their yearly meetings one of the ministers gave a sermon entitled “Would you rather be right or have a relationship”.    

I really find this to be really true in my life.  In the past I always would rather be right and didn't care if a relationship would suffer.    But I am finding now that I am becoming more interested in a relationship then being right.    I have a few toxic relationships in my life currently and am wondering about maybe focusing in on just the relationship and not being right.   I think partially on my side of the relationship I have been not so open because I was more worried about being right on a few issues that I clearly believed to be wronged.    So I am thinking that maybe I will try a new approach to these relationships.