A last ditch effort

Today was my last day at World Market. While I loved being there I have been ready to move on for a while now. Yesterday the head manager made a last ditch effort to try and get me to stay. He offered me the lead gourmet position which will soon be vacant. I asked him to tell me what I'd be making per hour and his reply was "not enough to keep you here." It was a nice to hear that he was making an effort to keep me, but a person can not live here on $11/hr.

Yesterday I was talking with one of my co-workers about religion. I know it's not normally a suggested work topic but it was relavant to what we had been talking about earlier in the conversation. He has the same feeling as I do on traditional religions/churches, he does not like them at all and has pretty much given up on God because of them. I went on to tell him about the Hope Interfaith Center and he said "I wish there was someplace like that here."

Later on that night I was getting more than a bit aggitated at customers. I kept saying to myself "If they would just open up their eyes....". Then I remembered my spritual teacher, Hope, and what her name stands for, Help Open Planetary Eyes. I then started looking at them in a new perspective. My spiritual eyes became a little more open and I saw them as needing their eyes opened too. It's still a bit jumbled in my mind so forgive me if this sound a bit confusing or odd. I am starting to believe that the condition of a person's spiritual eyes directly affects their outlook and how they physically "see" the world. Some of you may be thinking "But what about people who are blind?" Those who are blind have other ways of "seeing" the world through their other senses. When ones spiritual eyes are out of focus their thoughts and sensory perceptions get so messed up theat they are not able to fully take in the world around them. They don't see as well, they can't smell as much. At times when my "eyes" were closed and I remember not being able to see things that were right in front of my face, I was so distracted by what was going on in my head.