I have at least convinced...
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I have at least convinced myself that few things bring a conversation to a stop more quickly than letting a stranger discover that I am a minister of the gospel.
For this reason, I very seldom ever tell my airplane seatmate. When I respond to the question, "Now, what do you do for a living" with "I am an ordained minister," the conversation seems to move in new, frequently unwanted, directions.
For that reason, I seldom bring up my occupation. When asked, I usually throw up a smoke screen. I say I am a writer or a marriage counselor (both true, but peripheral). Sometimes my response pushes the outer limits of honesty. I tell them I am in the fire insurance business. If pushed hard enough I will even claim to give away the only fire insurance policy that guarantees you will not experience an eternal fire.
In my-most honest moments I can identify with Peter who claimed he did not personally know Jesus. I do that and I guess most of us do from time to time.
-- Cueni
For this reason, I very seldom ever tell my airplane seatmate. When I respond to the question, "Now, what do you do for a living" with "I am an ordained minister," the conversation seems to move in new, frequently unwanted, directions.
For that reason, I seldom bring up my occupation. When asked, I usually throw up a smoke screen. I say I am a writer or a marriage counselor (both true, but peripheral). Sometimes my response pushes the outer limits of honesty. I tell them I am in the fire insurance business. If pushed hard enough I will even claim to give away the only fire insurance policy that guarantees you will not experience an eternal fire.
In my-most honest moments I can identify with Peter who claimed he did not personally know Jesus. I do that and I guess most of us do from time to time.
-- Cueni
