No Room

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September 3, 2021

I think it’s funny.  I ended my morning prayer.  Pulled up my email and took note of a local church looking for a content manager.  I chuckled.  I knew in that moment that I don’t fit the look.  Musicians move through the same experience.  You have to look a certain way or go away.  I’m not being a judger!  I’ve applied for many positions at churches and having a love for Christ doesn’t come close to what they’re looking for.  What I loved about this email was they called the position a member of our business.  Wow!  That’s new!  I want to be interviewed by this group just to see how the evolution of church and business has become the everyday process.  Somewhere along the lines of conversation I bomb at my church interviews.  Is it my long hair?  Is it the lack of holes in my jeans?  I am for all people.  Maybe that’s what gets in the way, “Son it’s about a collected people and we already have a front man.”  The church needs a content manager.  They have nine hours a week available.  I create content.  I make conversations move forward.  Nine hours?  I’ve spent forty two years in radio trying to get what I do inside a bottle designed for maybe fifteen hours.  Listen, the funny part is how from out of nowhere this email appeared.  It happened to make it to me the very second I came out of prayer.  Was it God or the other side of the fence pretty much saying, “You’re still a loser!”  Not a negative!  Awareness is everything.  Being called a loser is still the upper hand.  They noticed me.  It’s still God working next to you.  If God wants you in a church it isn’t going to require a resume.  You’ll be there because the command and calling were too much to set aside.  Be present in your moment.  Be alive in the spirit of others.  Be you.  Having a half shaved head with an untucked shirt with faded jeans doesn’t mean anything but the keeper of clothing that my father would’ve been disturbed by, “Hey!  I bust my butt at that job for you not to look that way!”  Thanks Dad for still living inside my dreams.