Contemplative Comics day 92

Fired guy 1/11

When you are making a daily comic and a bomb gets dropped on you… well, I had to take a break. I actually stopped making the comic from this point until December 1st. I always intended to come back to it, so I journaled. And I journaled. And I journaled.

When the time came to go back and finish November… I hated everything that I had written. None of it felt right. I did not want to use any of the notes I made. I was nervous about being unfair to people who had been friends because I was hurt by their decisions. I was right to feel hurt. I was right to be angry for a time. I was right to lose trust. But I would not be right to lash out, point fingers, cause division, or make sharp cut downs in my pain.

I decided not to go into details. Honestly, they’re boring anyway. “Non-denom church has smart, talented people who were immature church leaders (of which I was included) and made decisions that hurt people.” A fairly common story. Not very original.

So I came up with these 11 comics that I feel are an incredibly accurate depiction of what it felt like to get fired from my position of Pastor of Mobilization at Brick City Church and lose my community.