When I first came on Fanda Eagles I never realised what a journey it would be.
I've been a writer for many decades, had some good successes with it, but it has predominantly been either comedy or medical journalism in nature. Suddenly I find I'm writing an introspective account of my own life, the tears, the laughs, the frustrations, the warts and all.
Today I have asked myself, why am I still here. I'm hardly a lovely clean cut christian boy who sits in church most Sundays. If someone asked myself if I was a christian, in all honesty I'd think long and hard before I answered. Life didn't work out for me in that way, it didn't for a lot of us.
I'd sum myself up as a sympathetic agnostic. But in on this site it doesn't matter what my religous beliefs are, or for that matter my marital status is, if I'm gay or straight or any of those matters that would bar me from becoming a missionary.
What made my day today was the number of MKs who stood up for MKs they probably had never even heard of a few months ago and took the time to write letters to voice their displeasure at the way the Downunder MKs could possibly be dumped back on the doorstep on NTM Australia (who have changed their name to Cross View Australia). As many of you have kindly said, we were all on the mission field together and together we will sort out this mess, not have different groups to sort this out depending on where you now reside. And it didn't seem to bother anyone that Old Bemused is a Sympathetic Agnostic, once divorced, short wearing, cycling MK from who knows where.
I have sent Brian Shortmeier a challenge, to reach out to the MKs that he knew when he was the Principal in PNG, just to see if they are o.k. I await to hear how he gets on and I wish him all the best.
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