On the road again?

I have been seriously considering pulling up stakes and relocating. I live in a great part of the world, but I constantly feel the call of the coast. I know I will never "retire" to a beach home, but the next, best thing would be get a job there. I am not getting any younger, so I need to act soon if it's gonna happen. I lived in a coastal area once, over twenty years ago, but that was in Virginia, and I was not totally happy with the situation. I am just a pilgrim passing through this world and do not need to own a house. That would probably be an impossibility anyway, considering I want to move to the Wilmington, NC area. A lot of things would have to come together for this to become reality.

First, I wanted to have other family in the area and not be "alone" considering my age. That hurdle has been crossed as my daughter-in-law is taking a new job at one of the hospitals in Wilmington. So, my son and his family will be moving there later this year.

Second, my wife would have to be willing to make the move.....she says she has no problem with it, as long as she does not have to do the packing. We'll see what we can do about that if the process ever gets that far. If everything else fell into place, I do not think this would be a problem.

Third, I need to find a buyer for my house and it really needs to be someone in the family. I live on "family land" (many of you know what this term means), and that's where this land needs to stay....in the family. This could probably be the toughest bridge to cross.

Fourth, I must find a job! My two careers have basically been auto parts retail/wholesale and radio broadcasting (strange combination, huh?). The economy is not good right now and may never recover. The times in which we live may dictate I stay put and live out my days right where I am....who knows?

I believe there will be no problem finding a good church in the area and that is of utmost importance to me.

This could all be a doddering old man's dream, but stranger things have happened in my life that I never thought would happen. Time will tell.

The Unitarian Universalist Church

I attended the wedding of one my nieces this weekend in Richmond, VA. It was held in a unitarian universalist church, which come to find out, is a very interesting entity indeed. If you knew nothing of this church, one could guess just from the name as I did that they believe all people go to heaven....that is, as they would say, if there is such a thing as heaven. The Unitarian Universalist church has no creed...no belief system whatsoever. They apparently want to be everything to everybody. It is, in practice, a humanist organization. There was no mention of God or a "god" one time during the ceremony I witnessed this weekend. They are very much involved in social issues such as homosexual marriage, civil rights, etc. I don't understand why they even bother to call it a "church". Why don't they call it the "Everybody Do What Is Right In Your Own Eyes Club"? 18% of UU's consider themselves atheists! Give me a break! They definitely are not Christian, nor do they claim to be, apparently. I believe the UU church serves the purpose of being a place to go for people who like to "play church" or whose guilty conscience requires them to be somewhere other than in the bed or on the golf course on Sunday mornings. For those of you who have turned your backs on God and the Christian faith, if you start feeling guilty about staying home on Sunday mornings and "enjoying" that second cup of coffee, check out the Unitarian Universalists....you might find that for which you seek!