I've been uninsured for a few years, and I have a couple more years to go before I reach Medicare age. This is another thing I have been thankful for, that I have had no major heart or diabetes concerns. I never had insurance coverage at work, so leaving the job had no impact on me. I take each day at a time and have often whispered, "Your will be done," when I'm lying in bed, thinking that something might be happening to me.
I celebrated my retirement by going with Lois to Nashville for the birth of our sixth grandson. We stayed for about 1-1/2 weeks and thoroughly enjoyed being there for the event, then we came back to prepare our house for sale (failed attempt, by the way). I went to the local senior center and got all of the information on retiree activities. However, I have yet to pull one off. I went for Scrabble. Nobody showed. I went for bingo. Turns out the others had gotten there early, ate quickly, then played bingo early because they were bored. All over by the time I arrived. Tried to join the bowling group. The schedule kept being changed or canceled. So I haven't been back. Old people are too frustrating!
Lois and I realized that, with our newfound faith, all of our friends were gone. So we tried to hook up with a church, at least for the social fellowship. We had tried bingo at the Catholic church, but being in a smoke-filled room with 75 people who won't even look at you for two hours was not what we had in mind.
We had always wanted to try the Unitarian church in a nearby town, so we decided to check it out. The people were pleasant, the songs were melodious (even though we didn't recognize them) and the messages (non-gospel) were interesting, at times. But we couldn't find God anywhere, let alone Jesus.
This particular church was Unitarian Universalist, and we had researched that denomination online. It came close to what we believed. Unitarian in that there's one God. Okay with that, except that we also believe God has a son named Jesus. Universalist in that God created everyone, loves everyone and is working on making things right so that everyone can spend eternity with Him. That's okay too; we're just different on how we believe he's going to do it.
The church boasted on the fact that you could believe anything and still be welcome there. I wasn't quite sure how they would pull that off, so I was curious. We attended several Sundays. Turns out that they didn't pull it off very well. The preaching/teaching was neither Unitarian nor Universalist. It was heavily humanist with a generous portion of Wiccan thrown in. I was missing having some Jesus in the format. Maybe some god, with a capital G. It wasn't happening there. So we left.
Our next focus would be on the Methodist church that happened to be located on the street where we lived. Would this one take?
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