Lent March 9 – Joy and Debilitating Pain

Ash Wednesday came and went. Friday, I got a last-minute audition. I’d set my mind to look for joy.  guess it paid off, because I got the job. I don’t want to be one of those “Hanging with Ryan Gosling, God is good” jerks. If that’s how God is good, then what about the rest of the planet? But I hadn’t worked a lot in the past five years, not as a writer or an actor – even adjunct teaching dried up…

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