I looked at the explanation of benefits for my urgent care visit and my insurance was billed $549 for the Covid test I did not ask for or approve and for which the result would have made zero difference in the care I received…Thanks @kpwashington
@garonnevik Not sure how you came to be on my feed, but I’ve been reading your posts for a while. This is what ministry should look like. I’m a pastor at a small church in a suburb south of Seattle if you ever come across someone needing help in this area.
I’ve felt passed over during alot of my time in ministry.
I didn’t come from a ministry family, I’ve never done formal ministry in my hometown so I always had to “start from scratch” and honestly, I’m just kinda awkward and rough around the edges (I’d like to think the disciples were too).
It took me a few years to stop feeling sorry for myself and realize there are likely others who share the same experience as me.
They don’t quit fit into a box and maybe I should find them. So that’s what I aimed to do, and it’s been a huge blessing.
Sometimes you’re not broken or defunct, you’re just in the wrong room with the wrong people. Go find your room.
@DeeGoingsGirl I homeschool because we knew in 1st grade my son would never succeed in a classroom setting (he’s a sophomore now.) My daughter went to private school (1-4th grade) until she was being bullied and the school did nothing to stop it (6th grade now.)
Sobered by last night and trying to practice what people call radical acceptance, not of a presidential candidate because surprising things happen. Just plainly sobered by the thought that, with other individuals to choose from, masses of people still hail Trump. He’s what they actually want in a leader. A bully. A verbally abusive, artfully and purposely divisive bully who has all but left the Republican Party unrecognizable. I don’t know. I just can’t understand it. Maybe I’ve got a mental block. But, you who are staunch Republicans, why don’t you care about your own party more than that?
Forgive me. I don’t want to be a repeat performance of my 2016 self. I don’t. I didn’t like her anymore than you did. I intend to deal differently with this. I do not intend to get obsessed. I do not intend to lose more relationships. I don’t intend to talk about this regularly.
As the Scriptures say, I want to seek peace and pursue it. I want to be a person of kindness, love and compassion.
But I’ve got to move to a place of radical acceptance. It was one thing to cast a vote for a party’s only candidate, reasoning the choice as the lesser of two evils. This is quite another thing. This is wide-open-eyed, “we WANT Trump!”
Anyway, this is where we are. We can complain all we want about our leaders but, in this government by the people, at the end of the day and the beginning of November, our candidates are mirrors of ourselves.
@Feisty_Waters My mother-in-law is in a rehab facility recovering from open heart surgery. She misses her cat, so my daughter drew her this picture of him.
@garonnevik My son asked for pencils and an electric sharpener for his birthday around that age. He actually left his own party to go and sharpen every single pencil.