My family and I attend St. William Catholic Church in Fort Lupton, Colorado. We first started attending in 2002, but took a hiatus when the IT market in Denver took a dive and I had to work nights. At that time, I wasn’t very happy with it anyway. I kind of felt uncomfortable being a new person there and the person who used to be in charge of children’s education said things to me that made me feel worse. Anyway, we moved to Michigan and when we came back, there was a new deacon in charge of children’s education. I was optimistic about the changes I was seeing there and agreed to teach 3rd grade CCD.
Unfortunately, the deacon and I had some poor communication at the beginning of the
year and I was angry with him for a while. This was in reference to my letting the kids go 20 minutes early, because we were finished with lessons. Deacon wanted me to use all of our time, even if that meant I had to come up with more things to do. I didn’t feel that the way this was conveyed was conducive to a peaceful and cooperative environment and I reacted angrily. I feel that this can happen in any organization, but I felt that church should be the one place where people should be able to talk about things and get them worked out. I am sometimes not as communicative as I should be either and since I realize this, I made more of an effort to improve my communication with him.
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