A Wing And A Prayer

I’m trying everything I can think of, including this blog, to find a freelance writing gig. Professionally, I have no experience. I have been writing for over thirty years, have a degree, had a few thing published. And now here I am, flying on a wing and a prayer.

In my experience with life and spiritual things, God likes sudden death overtimes. He likes to wait until the last moment before He sends in the reinforcements. I hope that’s not what He’s waiting for. I hope more He’s not giving me over into the hands of the Philistines, another thing He has been known to do. The trouble with delusion is, you’re deluded and you don’t recognize it.

That’s also the trouble with being human. We are finite creature trying to decide the right thing to do with only a tiny fraction of the facts. We delude ourselves, sighting our supposedly big brains and reason and science and our five senses into believing we can figure at least some of life out. We think since we know that one and one make two we can jump to the conclusion that one thing and another thing make something we can define categorically, systematically naming its parts and catalogue it and write every thing in a book so we can tell ourselves we have the facts, inconvertible truth that we know what we’re talking about.

The difference between people of faith and those not making the claim is not that people of faith don’t claim to know, but that we make it with the knowledge our claim is suspect, that there is something greater out there than us we hope is good or at least benign. If we understand at all we try and live with the idea it is only in part that we know and there is far more mystery than understanding.

So I don’t know. Maybe I was given time to write. Maybe I’m just taking it because I can’t figure out anything else to do? I’m taking it on faith that all things work together for good for those in Christ Jesus. I don’t get to know before hand. Sometimes I don’t get to know after. Frankly I don’t always have enough information to recognize the good if it did happen.

I think if you’re honest with yourself, neither do you. How many times in your life have things you thought sucked turned out to be the best thing ever. I think living by faith is part of the human condition and we only get to choose what we have faith in.

So I'm open for employment, having faith I've at least demonstrated my talent for creative problem solving and writing a coherent sentence.