Suburban Goddess

I was chatting with the youth pastor at my church while we were waiting for service to start yesterday; he’s one of those trendy, edgy youth pastors who’s “super-cool” and walks around to the kids saying things like “cool beans” and “rock on!”

I like him. He makes me laugh.

We kick off every service with a Powerpoint countdown which I’ve learned to get over, simply because he’s actually GOOD with Powerpoint. I was scrutinzing the background slide as the bass of the thumping techno music shook the walls, when I realized that he used a Photoshop brush that’s one of my favorites.

“Hey, who does your slides?” I asked, interested.

“I do. Why? Does it suck?” (Note: no pastor I ever grew up with would say the word “suck” in this context.)

“No, I just recognize the brush you used. It’s pretty cool.”

“Yeah, I do that stuff myself… you know about that kind of stuff?”

“Um… yeah. A little.” So we started talking about my day job, and suddenly he got very excited.

“You know we’re hiring designers right now? If you shoot me your resumé, I’ll get it in the director’s hands.”

“Really? That’s cool…. but I REALLY like my day job right now.”

“Well, you know, if you don’t want to do God’s work… I guess he’ll understand.”

(pause)

“That was the worst guilt trip I’ve ever experienced.”

“I know, right? I should be Catholic!”

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