Letting the Fields Die [revisited]
Talk about beating a dead horse.
Earlier in the summer I wrote a lot about “letting the fields die” on my dreams, a reference to the Old Testament command to let the fields have a Sabbath rest every 7 years. My “fields dying” referred to my dream of working for RELEVANT magazine.
The dream has been dead since June. I don’t want to work for RELEVANT anymore – not because I stopped believing in the magazine’s cause (because I still do), but because of internal issues of which I was informed through several sources.
But today I received an interesting email. Kevin from Seattle wrote me, saying that he had done research on RELEVANT in college and discovered the roots to all the questions and issues I have with the magazine. He said he found my blog through Google (no doubt he just googled “RELEVANT” and “blog” and my dear RELE-saturated blog came up), and was intrigued by what I had to say about – all this.
He offered to share his research with me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Here are some questions that have been running through my head all day:
1. Who knew someone in Seattle has read my blog? Blogging, not knowledge, must equal power. This makes me a little wary of what I put in my blogs now. I know that bosses Facebook-stalk future employees, they no doubt blog-stalk too. Will this hurt my chance of getting an internship at RELEVANT?
2. Should I even pursue an internship with RELEVANT? I thought that God was keeping me from a job there, but does he want me to forget about an internship as well? Are my chances already shot? (Hey, I’m not always the most RELE-friendly in these blogs.)
3. Is God just beating a dead horse? This dream is already dead, so why does God keep insisting on bringing the issue up? LORD, it’s done; I don’t want to work there; I’ve forgotten about it; stop making me deal with it.
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Editor’s note: I love RELEVANT. I still do. I love its mission, I love its podcast and its staff (meh, former staff). I understand that its not a perfect organization, or that it has called itself a ministry. But it’s still an effective medium – that I refuse to deny.
Lauren
September 14, 2009