new job - new religion?

it has been 3 week since my last blog...

new jobs have a habit of consuming you, as i now recall after reaching the third official weekend. my whole working life has been a combination of part time jobs to support myself financially while i spend every other moment doing that which i am truly passionate about. i now, at 34, have discovered the job that pays me and is also something i am truly passionate about. the real surprise is it is not working for the church, but stands for a great number of things the church in my view should but no longer does. my new job is about caring for those on the fringes of society, vulnerable people and motivating those in mainstream to actually caring enough to act.

i am loving what i will be doing in my new job and excited at the infinite possibilities but it unfortunately leads me to reflect again on how the church has let us down. how religion has let us down. people of faith change the world in ways that are often so powerful we need to stop to catch our breath. how sad it is that recently this is not for the better.
some names that you will know (i hope) and examples i believe of people of faith acting for the benefit of others
Mohammed, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela...

some names of those i suspect who, though of faith, have done things in my view less than positively.
Archbishop Jensen, the popes, Sheik Feiz Mohammed, President Bush...
people who claim to be of faith that for me seem to be promoting things other than harmony and seeking the good for all humanity.

good and faithful people change the world everyday for the better, and seek forgiveness for the times in which they fail. i have found a workplace in which i can be good and faithful without needing to apologise for the institution.

i wonder how long till the "honeymoon" view wears off
i wonder if i will find myself apologising for my new role
i wonder why it is so hard to say sorry
i wonder why John Howard appears to choke on the very simple and immensely powerful 's' word

sorry

for dragging this thought out to an ineveitable anti climax