Compromise Kills, Point Blank

Over the past three months I feel like I've lived a couple of lives...

Back in February, I was living in VA in a pretty radical "Christian" community where gender roles were as old school as you could get. I put the word Christian in quotes because only after living there did I find out that it wasn't Christian at all. I'm not going to go into detail as to why and how I came to those conclusions because I'd rather not rehash all that; if you know me in person then you know why it wasn't. But hey, if an organization offers to pay for everything including further education if you teach for them, it starts to be pretty tempting. Not to mention their use of the Bible to support what they do and how they live is incredibly convincing. So don't knock me :P

Thus I go from living in this super conservative group where women pretty much just cook and clean to now being in corporate Americia with my "new" job. To think, I'm going golfing next Thursday with the company. I kind of want to laugh at myself for that one, ha, ha. I'll be blunt and honest, there's so much about me that's entirely anti-corporate America. The selfishness and the greed behind so much of it just turns my stomach. But hey, I've got to pay off those astronomical student loans for that top-of-the-line public university I went to since I wasn't on mommy or daddy's check book or credit card. Lucky me.

Okay enough with my rambling, you're already wondering...When's this chick going to get to her point? Well, the point of this post is not about how I escaped a crazy commune or even how hilarious and ironic I find it that I'm right smack in the middle of corporate America now. But the point of this post is how I've learned how compromise can kill any good thing.

About three weeks ago something happened, something that shouldn't have happened. Again, I have to be vague here out of decency and respect, sorry. But that something that happened, though it was painful, has taught me a very important lesson... Compromise can and will kill anything good. And it's really awful how numb we can sometimes be to learning and listening to God's heart on matters until it's just too late. We get too caught up in a moment and don't care of the aftermath. Our pride makes us careless with the future and also with each other. What a sad yet invaluable truth to learn...