Letter to a friend.

Dear Friend,

It’s been some time since we have spoken.  Time has allowed for clarity of perception.  I believe the saying is, that hindsight is 20-20.  My heart breaks with the understanding that I now have.  You were stuck.  The agony you must have faced every night, as you lay in bed, wanting peace, wanting rest.  It’s an agony felt by many, but this version is more powerful as it uses the guilt of religion to freeze you, to keep you from breaking free.

You wanted your small start-up to be successful.  You put alot of hours and emotion into it.  You wanted it to succeed because you wanted it to make a difference.  You needed it to succeed because your mortgage, your medical bills, your family depended on it.  The duty of man to provide for his family.  No one can blame a man for assuming his natural role.  Unfortunately, you tried to assume it in an unnatural way.  Ever since the Israelites begged God for a King, man has wanted to be ruled over by man.  It’s not the way it was meant to be.  But it is the system that our American church follows.  It has become an honorable profession to rule over man in an American church.  A profession that you committed yourself to.  And one that doesn’t always pay well.  Which leads us back to man’s natural role of providing for his family.  Our natural duty eventually becomes the stronger motivator for our choices.  When forced to choose, the choice that keeps the family provided for will usually win.  And it did for you.  Honorably so.  It doesn’t even seem fair.  It isn’t really.  Man wasn’t ever intended to make a living this way.  But it is the current system.  The current system sucks.

Godspeed,

Choose to believe something different. 

 ”You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates.  Don’t set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do.  Save that authroity for God, let Him tell you what to do.  No one else should carry the tilte of Father, you have only one Father, and he’s in Heaven.  And don’t let people manuever you into taking charge of them.  There is only one Life-Leader for you and them…Christ.”

Matthew 23: 8-10 (read all of 23 to grasp the greater context)