Comments on: Va-cation and Vo-cation: 5 Lies I Used to Believe – (The Medialle House Journals – 7)

By: michaelkrahn

michaelkrahn — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:10:51 +0000

Sure, you do need to check the ol\’ attitude. But too many people use that and other reasons to prolong their unnecessary misery.

By: Marissa

Marissa — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:42:30 +0000

Thanks for pointing out this post to me. I’m sick of feeling like life is never going to change and that I’ll be stuck at this pointless job forever. A job that makes me angry almost every day.
Having no degree and nooooo desire whatsoever to get one, I really have no idea what I could do instead.

By: Hellen

Hellen — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:34:13 +0000

I think though too that it is not always about leaving a j.o.b but in learning to bloom where we are planted…seeing how our gifts can be used right where we are at any given time…accepting, appreciating and honing our particular gifts while not envying others for their gifts. The guy or gal who cleans the toilets at church (or where ever) may well have a gift of service and can feel blessed to be able to give to others in that way.

If I believe that God can use every situation for His purposes (and I do) then even when I am ‘stuck’ in a j.o.b. that I hate, I can change my attitude even if I can’t change my job and see how I can be used of God right where I am.

So, it’s not either/or…for some it may mean leaving a j.o.b. , for others it may mean leaving a stinkin’ attitude….situational…

By: Lark

Lark — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:56:05 +0000

I love your writing Michael. It is ALWAYS thoughtful, sprinkled with provocative questions that implant themselves somewhere in me and usually end up turning up later in my day or week as an echo of the Spirit. You get to the heart of the matter. Thank you for writing. Thank you for writing. There’s that echo thing again.

By: Michael Krahn

Michael Krahn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:28:17 +0000

@John: I know that feeling. It doesn’t go away quickly, but with some dreaming and some risk it IS possible.

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:56:45 +0000

“Are you still working at a j-o-b? Why?”

Yes, because I have to support my family. The things I want to do don’t typically pay well, especially in the beginning, if ever. It would aslo would require me to spend lots of time away from my family. Not just days, but months
“Find something else”
There is no real desire to do anything else
Which leaves me dragging my ass to work with nothing to look forward to except spending time with my wife and child. Which I end up too tired for.
The wife is tired and cranky because she too has to drag herself to a job she does not want because I cant provide enough

So here i lay, hating the day away
In the morning water fills my eyes,
A tear reaches my chin by the night
So here I lay, dying