Is it enough to lose one’s job for faith in Jesus? “If we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8). Yet by laying aside all that comes from ourself we are promised grace. Being an aggressive male is fine if you are in a pre-historic gang that bops each other over the head for fun, but there is one who speaks out of a gentle spirit. It is incredible the lives our forbearers have lived. The church has authority, and it is one that my soul is tormented for not listening to. I will talk of nothing but Him who saved me, I will submit to the church, the mother of grace, I will pray to God three times a day. "Kids, you do whatever your mother tells you." Yet my neighbors turn the other way. My thoughts are racing. In the quarter dollars I use for my morning coffee are the letters P, D, and S. May my soul likewise be marked as righteous, bought, no longer a sinner. "The righteous shall live by faith" (Habakkuk 2:4)