sunday school....

ok, so i teach sunday school this morning, and eventually i better move on from blogging to studying the text and making a few notes......the passage is the classic one where j.c. replied to his critics something about giving to caeser what is caesar's, and giving to god what is god's........j.c.'s comment was a crafty way to answer a factional question, in an age when there were many factions .....little has changed in the middle east it would seem.....but i suppose what i find most chilling in this text is how much it reminds me of what is happening at work...where factions have been at work for months and months pushing an agenda that is ridiculous on many levels....and now the rumor is that the director will quit, as many have hoped and that we will get a new director who will be present at all times......who in their right mind wants a boss who is always there?.....these folks have obviously never had a looking-over-your shoulder boss....it is something to be avoided, actually......and since we have shared a director with a sister health department.....there are those who do not quite understand that we cannot just take a part-time position and hire the replacement fulltime without adjusting down expenses somewhere....most of the time expenses are downwardly adjusted by laying off staff...gentle readers, my soon-to-quit boss is not someone that i am comparing to j.c......though i must add that he has never done me a bad turn and that is why i have gone out of my way to stay out of the factional business.........yet i do feel that these factions have the potential to make my professional life miserable for months to come.....and with this aching jaw and swollen gums and crumbling dental work i have no use for discord at work......