Friday Hodgepodge on Saturday

Tiffany Has Returned

Since the March 25th I have been asking your prayer for our fellow blogger and my sometimes housekeeper, Tiffany. She telephoned me last night and informed me that the majority of her ordeal is over. At the moment she does not have Internet access, so she isn’t able to update her blog. However, I’m sure she will write something within the near future. My thanks on behalf of Tiffany for your kind thought and prayers for her—and especially to those folks who visited her bog, AmOr OnLiNe, and wrote her notes.

Income

Back around Saint Patrick’s Day I mention that I was involved in a week of all-day classes plus evenings of study. I hope that I am about to reap the payoff for that week and all of the study I have done since.

As you may or may not know, I have been without a regular income since May of 2003, when the congregation I was then pastoring decided they could not afford a full-time pastor. Since I had just purchased my house and decided to finally settle down, I did not seek employment beyond a reasonable commuting distance from Louisville. That has meant that I have expended all of my savings, including selling off stocks and bonds, to supplement the small earned income I had from occasional preaching gigs, the online store I no long have (that’s a future blog subject), and the little I was selling on eBay (another future blog post).

I have submitted my resume to literally hundreds of potential employers, primarily in the fields in which I have degrees: education, social work, and theology. I won’t go into the frustration and angst of participating in interview after interview without success.

In early March I was contacted by a potential employer and the interview, as well as the potential compensation, was acceptable. So I spent the week of Saint Patrick’s Day taking a course in preparation for taking the state exam to obtain an insurance agent’s license.

After jumping through several other hoops, including as did my friend, obtaining a replacement Social Security card, I will be taking the exam next Thursday or Friday. In the meantime, I spend a couple of hours each day reviewing all of the information I learned in that course.

I recently told someone that the insurance terminology and law is “Greek to me.” That isn’t true: I have studied Greek (as well as Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic) and Greek is easier!