A Day Of Answers…
Hello again everyone!
Wednesday of last week (1/21) I received two phone calls that changed the course of what will follow in our lives. The first was an awesome phone call to receive. After two months I FINALLY heard back from Cal State Fullerton about Grad school. Long story short, (well, sort of) the wrong person was given my grad school paperwork and application to process and instead of passing it on, it was left on his desk until 5 days before I got the phone call. That really happened, the reason he gave for not passing it on sooner? He didn’t want to do anything over his Christmas break. When it was finally passed on the Professor who was responsible for reading it was out of town until Wednesday, yes the same Wednesday I got the phone call. Well, I am now in the biology graduate program; school started Monday. So, I should have my Master’s in 2 years… =)
So the second phone call wasn’t as pleasant. The second call was from the Church; they decided they aren’t approving our application for use of the campus for the reception. The strangest part of the whole thing is that I’m not furious with the church for leading us on and not giving us an answer for 5 months. (Yes, they had the application for 5 months before we were finally answered) I am however disappointed and I kind of feel unwelcome or unwanted at my own home church, which is never a good feeling and it is never a feeling I wish on anyone. We both have attended and been members of the church since they opened and have been serving for almost 18 years between us. The reason we were given? They just aren’t ready to hold a reception yet. Here’s why this makes me feel the way I feel. I have been to a reception on the church grounds, and I know they are hosting another reception for another couple in about a month. So, was I lied to by my own church? I don’t know. I don’t know if the reason I was given came from the group of people who I was told were writing a policy for which members of the church could and couldn’t use the grounds or if the reason I was given came from the person who made the phone call. Either way, I no longer wish to have my reception and possibly even my ceremony at the church if I can avoid it. I don’t feel welcome there. I had looked at the church as a second home and a second family, but I don’t know anymore. I am sort of uncomfortable around the people who I know were on the committee, and it makes me sad. No one should feel this way around the leaders of the church. I don’t in any way blame the pastor who is our contact and who we have grown up with and we hope if we find a location for both that he will still do our ceremony. He always seemed genuine in his attempts to help us out and he is really a great guy. We still love him to death. Anyway, just so you are all updated after this huge gap of nothing, that is the biggest thing that has happened in the past couple weeks.
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