Lent 18

Had a pretty weird job interview last night. It was a phone interview with a panel of about 5 people on the call. It was very clear that each person in the room had their own agenda or, at the very least, had been assigned an agenda. Each person stuck to questions that revolved around roughly the same thing. There was one guy who threw absolutely off the wall questions at me. His questions made even the others on the panel a little confused (they said so). At first I found myself a little annoyed, but then somewhere in the midst of the 45 minute conversation, I decided there was method to his madness. I really think he was using some strange technique...almost like Jesus..in a reverse-parable kind of way. When people asked Jesus questions, he gave them parables, which at face value seemed quite nonsensical. This man was asking me nonsense questions and I actually think he cared about the answers. For instance, the most off-the-wall questions was this: "If you were a native of Charleston when the Battle of Fort Sumter started, which side would you have been on?" I thought, what in the world does this have to do with the position of Youth Director at a UM church. But not wanting to brush him off, I thought carefully and gave a measured and thoughtful, even intellectual answer. He responded with, "Young lady, that was a good answer."

Basically what I'm saying is..truth and insight comes from very unexpected places.