To my seven readers,  3 of you already knew that I have been teaching for a few weeks now so this post comes as no shock to you – but to the rest of you?  I’m TEACHING church stuff!!  Did your jaw drop to the floor?  HAHA!  Don’t worry – it’s not like THAT.  Not like the “praise the Lord – good great sweet baby Jesus” type of church teaching – not that there would be anything wrong with that – but we all know that just isn’t me.  (btw – did any of you watch that Nascar prayer? HAHAHAHAHAHA! I know I shouldn’t laugh but HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Was he SERIOUS??  ”We thank you for the dodges and the fords… In Jesus name, bugguty bugguty” HAHAHA!  Watch it here)

No – nothing like that.  I’m just teaching a little “do service and be kind” type of stuff (which happens to be stuff I believe) to a class of 6-7 year olds and I’m only doing it because the leader in the church group I attend asked me to and much to my dismay I said yes.

Right.  Much to my dismay, I said yes.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TEACHING IN CHURCH MEANS???  It means I have to actually ATTEND church EVERY WEEK.  Pretty clever of that bishop if you ask me.  ;)  My attendance in church has been NON-EXISTENT for TEN YEARS!  Which probably makes you want to ask, “Why in the world did a bishop of a church group ask you to teach a class of 6-7 year olds if you’ve been agnostic for most of the last ten years?”  Well… that’s a good question.  But since you didn’t raise your hand … just kidding.  I’m not very good at enforcing the kids to raise their hands in class either.  But that’s because they’re TERRIFIED of me.  HAHAHAHA!  Just kidding again.  Man I’m a riot tonight!  No but for REAL??

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

OOORRRRR maybe I’ve been studying a lot about why religion can be good over the past year so I’m not such a terrible choice.  It was probably time I looked a little more closely at the “cup half full” side of it.  I HAVE spent countless years studying about how horrid organized religion is – and although I retain my opinions on the dangers of organized religion – I believe my current church participation doesn’t encroach on these firmly held beliefs about religions in general.  And I think being a responsible church goer means being aware of the good AND the bad of a religion.  But that’s not a blog topic for today – or for any other day because it’s SO LONG AND EXTRA EXTRA BORING!!!

But yeah … the short of it is that he had his reasons for asking and I had my own for saying yes.  And I think I am going to enjoy this new adventure: teaching little, incredibly bossy, CANNOT SIT STILL, or listen to a word I’m saying, kids about being kind.