I think "I've finally found it"

Many years ago...before I was married...before I was engaged...maybe before I was in high school...there was this commercial...

"Where's the beef?"

This ancient little lady was looking with some others at a bun (if I remember) for a hamburger that they couldn't seem to see. Her line grabbed the nation: "Where's the beef?"

The sad thing is that this was a commercial for Wendy's. After a while, though, another company (was it a chili company??) grabbed her because of the success of the Wendy's commercial and placed her in theirs. Her line there was, "I've FINALLY found it!" She found the beef. Wendy's wasn't thrilled that she had found her beef somewhere else and her contract with them was terminated.

I go through all of this just to say one thing: I think "I've finally found it."

I've been blogging for a while about the problems and the frustrations with the church. In a nutshell, I see folks who are more than willing to tell you what to do and how to do it based on their perspectives of the Scriptures, but they aren't willing to essentially give you the time of day otherwise. I would go all week without contact with anyone from church, regardless of what I tried, unless they either wanted me to attend some sort of home sales show or they wanted to whine at me about something they, for whatever reason, thought I could set straight or they wanted me to join them in their pet projects for the church. It was either that or it was a lack in "clicking." I knew I was pretty stagnate, whatever the reason.

But now I don't feel like I'm bucking the system--and boy, was it that! Now I feel like I've finally found some folks who REALLY understand what I've just started to understand and they care enough to help me understand it all a lot more along the way. And they're interested in letting me help them, too.

And that is why I feel so at peace all of a sudden with what is happening here. Hard to explain except to say I feel at peace.