Guys, thanks so much! I feel wonderful... I honestly had doubts of whether I'd ever be able to reach this point. I surely didn't think it would come this quickly.
Francois: "I didn't see the part where God got involved in all this."
Neither did I, Francois. I appreciate your paragraph about my efforts in the deal, thanks! I guess the tongue-in-cheek nature of my comments about the blessing didn't reach my usual level of dripping sarcasm, but this line was intended to be the give-away:
Obviously, my agnostic stance has moved him to show such an outpouring of blessing and approval. Reckon I better keep it.
Yeah, it's like, I spend 12 years begging and crying, only asking for understanding, faith, and endurance (in order to be able to keep my sanity in his organization), and I get the cold shoulder. So I become an apostate agnostic, and the "blessings" come pouring down. What's up wif dat? Hmmm... LOL!
"Can you believe there are still people suckering for this shit? Hehehe!"
- J.R. Brown