I will be moving one week from now! Hopefully, we will get this together in that time.
It has been hard on my wife, but she is taking it extremely well. The excitement and looking forward to a new place and opportunities, not to mention fresher air, is helping her to carry on. She has been doing MOST of the packing, since I have been out of town on my job all week. Getting back in on Friday evening between 7:30 and 8:PM. Today, I will be getting out there and doing some as well, especially what she can't do.
I feel we are getting closer to that "live nude and prosper" life I have been dreaming of, we all have been dreaming of!
And I also pray for our new neighbors and friends, that "The Lord protect our nudity from the site of those who will not benefit, and our nudity is seen by those who will".
Boyd "Live Nude and Prosper" Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."
I will be praying for you this week in the midst of your move to VA. I know it is a stressful time in our lives. I am also praying that the job will become a permanite possition so that you will not have to go through this again. Too bad that you were not able to locate a place far enough from people that you would not have to worry about you nudity. Oh well maybe some day. God bless.
Actually, its not really my goal to move away from people to allow for nudity, but to be where nudity is OK in spite of the fact that people are around. We are social people, which is why we go to naturist resorts.
But would be nice if we were able to live our current social lives while nudity is allowed.
We are not to live as hermits or on islands away from people. Our light should shine, from our bodies as well as our hearts and minds.
I had some friends who lived in a semi-rural area well outside the city. They had a a swimming pool that was not visible from the road nor really from the side, but if you drove to the end of their gravel driveway you'd see the pool and whoever happened to be in or around it.
Everyone knew that Mr and Mrs. M might be nude, so visitors politely called out first. Likewise Mr and Mrs M could easily hear someone coming down that noisy gravel driveway and prepare to receive guests if they felt so inclined. They also had several dogs that didn't bite, but did a fair amount of barking when someone who was not a regular there arrived.
I like the way my friends let their friends and neighbors know right off the bat that there would often be poolside nudity, but it was not as "in your face" as it would be in a tiny city lot. It worked out really well.
Hope you can make similar arrangements when you are out gardening, painting, tossing a frisbee, or whatever it is you care to do in the buff. You can use the word "naturist" or nudist, but it may be simpler just to say that you are just a family that enjoys getting some all-over sun in the semi-privacy of your back yard.
If they really cop an attitude, perhaps you should let trees and shrubs grow unpruned where your property line faces them, but let's hope it doesn't come to that. I've only been in my house a few years and in some parts of the yard several shrubs have grown very tall and thick.
Boyd, not only should our light so shine before the world as you have
said, but that it so should shine to glory our God which art in heaven.
If nudity, or the natural clothing that God gave us as our highest gift
is not understood, that light can not shine nearly as well as God intends
it to shine.
The biggest blind spot of most christians these days is that they
trust in the arm of flesh way too much, to tell them false things
which do not match at all what the scriptures actually say about
the natural body and the proper use of it, which God calls all of us
into, and invitation into eternal refinement.
That entrance into eternal refinement requires the deepest humility possible,
to shed our clothes for the truth, that others may see clearly just who
God is, and his infinite mercy placed upon us which we from the beginning
did not deserve at all!!!
My website, improved alot since I began it, five months ago, and still in
need of some improvements still, addresses the core reasons why we should
turn to the body as the central issue of our faith, and to see it clearly
as the instrument in God's hands to turn many to him.
That is our purpose, to establish God's kingdom, to assist our Lord
in his work, which has already been finished from the beginning. It is
Man's turn to put the final exclamation point on God's great plan by
shedding the clothes which are the grand lie of Satan, to thrust truth
into the captivating light once and for all, that many who belong to
Jesus may trust in its message, to the core of who we are.
Thank you. Sometimes I feel a lack of confidence in my new job. Days it is frustrating and sometimes I do the wrong thing that gets the wrong peoples attention.
Where I work, we don't let our new guys feel like a dunce. We have policies and procedures that no one could possibly know unless they have worked with us before. Whenever we hire a new guy, we put him under the tutelage of a senior tech who can ride shotgun with him until his work is consistent and up to our standards.
If your problems involve areas where your knowledge is a little weak, see if they can work with you to get your skills up to speed on those trouble spots.
Perhaps you took on a position where you are the only IT guy in an office full of impatient end users. I've been in that position and printers were my weak area. I didn't last long there to be honest.
I hope you are in a place that is giving you a fair shot at learning your responsibilities and not a place that expects you to need no training whatsoever.
I hope you can fit into the corporate culture there, but don't beat yourself up if you don't fit. I know you'll try because you've got a lot riding on your success with this company in a new town, but I have worked in some places that had so much arrogance, mean-spirited backbiting that I came to realize that some companies are socially disfunctional. Again, I hope nothing like this is going on.
There's a lot to pray about and I'm with you on this!
They have done everything they could. In a way, they are somewhat lost too on occasion. This is a newly acquired company and they are trying to migrate and switching the network over to the parent company. Not easy. You do one thing wrong, it all goes haywire!
Of course, I am not in that part of the group. I am in the desktop support, and I am the only guy there that does that specifically. There are others who are there to work on the network, and sometimes I feel out of place, though they do want my help.
I am not that weak in printers and desktop hardware I can do quite easily. Its the network that gives me trouble. But the senior manager wanted us to use the existing tools, such as a small network toner, to do the job of network troubleshooting.
I finally got them to fork out for a new Testum Lanscaper with eight remotes to help take care of our bad network and sniff out the mess we got.
After a while you got to say "I NEED THE TOOLS!"....nicely.
Anyway, I pretty much expect a network chaos when I get back due to a couple of servers getting switched out this weekend. I was hoping to be there to help out, but I have to be at home to get this mess packed up!
I talked to our neighbor, the ones next door who has a couple of kids, and whom I KNOW has seen my mow my backyard nude! Well, she was sitting on the side steps and told us how much we were going to be missed, that the kids loved us, and that we were the best neighbors she had in her six years here!
I feel humbled!
Well, we hope to be good neighbors (nude ones) to our new ones as well!
I'm sure if she had a problem, she would have complained a long time ago and have never allowed the kids to come over! Of course, I'm always dressed when they do come over or when they are out.
Anyway (had to put that story in to keep the naturist theme going).
I know God is with us. He will not have us go through all this and then pull the rug out from under us. I just got the jitters and sometimes I lack confidence in myself.
Hi. I am so glad things are working out for you. I am a little sad though. All this time I only lived 45 minutes away and never came by to visit that often. Now that you are moving I realize how we take things for granted. If I can help give me a call. Our little girls can play while we pull our spines out of joint on your heavy items. J
