[Magdalen] Uber or Lyft drivers?

[Marion Thompson]

Dear, oh dear, Suzie.  Prayers are rising like incense for a happy turn 
of events in your future.  I'm sure that driving Uber won't be your 
ultimate destiny.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 5/10/2017 11:32 PM, Suzie Buchanan wrote:
> I haven't posted here in a while - but I do keep an eye on you all!
>
> I haven't posted about this - and really don't know how to because I don't
> want to trash a parish that still has so much potential, despite so much
> dysfunction (some of which I saw, and tackled to my own 'professional'
> detriment (such as a culture steeped in over-saturation in alcohol) - and
> some that I never saw coming). . . but I am now an unemployed priest,
> looking for another "priestly" job.  But in the meantime, I need to pay
> bills.  I was underwater a huge amount when I sold my house to move here -
> and am still paying that off, as well as a new mortgage.  I am trying to
> not be anxious. It is not easy.
>
> *Have any of you had experience driving for Uber or Lyft?  If so, any
> recommendations, warnings, hints, etc??  *
>
> I do welcome any and all prayers as I enter deeply into my own priestly
> discernment.  I do not want to take the first job offered, simply because
> it is offered, if it is not the right place for me to be.  I also don't
> want to not have any jobs ever offered!  I have a search committee coming
> to hear me preach this coming Sunday, and a local priest willing to offer
> me her pulpit and altar for the occasion.  How this will work out moving
> forward (if this one isn't the right place for me) I have no idea.
>
> I am trying hard to live into what I need to preach this weekend:  Let not
> your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God.  Believe also in Me.
>
> Keep me in prayer.  Any advice (on Uber, Lyft, or parish openings) gladly
> accepted.
>
> blessings
> Suz
> .
>