Okay . . . so here's the deal

I have been out of pocket and kind of flying around everywhere (literally and mentally) because I was offered a job last week. On Thursday at lunch. While I was getting into my truck to be exact.

Now while job offers are no small thing even in the most mundane of professions, this job offer constituted a pretty big deal. In my life. In my current employment. In my husband's elected position. In our church. Pretty much in our whole town.

I won't go into all the gorey details but I will put it in bullet point format for ease of understanding (mainly because bullet points make it easier for ME):

• I currently work in our church office
• I do not make much $$ and there are no health insurance or retirement benefits
• I really love my job and the servant's posture it has allowed me to transition into
• I do not make hardly any $$
• New job pays A LOT
• New job pays for mine and the Bear's health insurance
• New job offers retirement fund
• New job also employs someone who had an affair with a married person
• That someone was also married at the time
• Both couples are members of our church
• Our town is very very very (did I mention) very small
• Ergo there are the "teams" who have picked sides of the affair to be on
• My husband is an ELECTED official
• Certain people on the "teams" might perceive my acceptance of the new job as support for the affairees
• New job is answer to prayer inasmuch as it pertains to income and benefits for my family
• New job is something that my strengths would allow me to be really really good at
• Did I mention how small our town is? If you don't already know someone it's because you're related to them.

So there you go. I am, of course, going to take the new job. It all feels "right" and maybe I am putting too much concern about the soap opera that has been front and center in our town for the past nine months into my deliberations. But my husband and I have tried very hard to walk the neutral line in our community. If we said it once, we said it one hundred times: "It is not our business and we are not going to speculate about ANYONE'S private lives."

See what I get for mentioning my life was uneventful?

I'm gonna try keeping my big yap shut for a while.