What would people say if I tell them I'm a Jesus freak...

I'm sitting in the Christian Business Fellowship Club meeting in my MBA school...sad to say it's my first visit. I know, I know it's sad. My dad is a pastor, my brother is the president of the students for his theological school...and this is my first visit to the CBF club.

It's so easy to get caught up in the MBA life. It's a vortex that sucks you in. It's hard to break a momentum that is already going- but I know I have a strong foundation that keeps me rooted, even if sometimes I get blinded by all the dust that this vortex is raising as it tries to suck me in. I wish I could say it was only me in this quandry. Sadly, I can't. I'm one of 10 people at the session. Two others are not even students here! As I sit here waiting for this session to start, I overhear the president speak about the leadership succssion of the club- she's trying to persuade a first year to become the secretary and she mentions that she 'cornered' someone else to try to talk him into taking up her position as president. Compare this to the landscape of other clubs, where there is usually a highly competitive race to enter club leadership positions...sad indeed.

So I wait for the session to start. I usually make a conscious effort to meet and greet people, even if I am the outsider in a new place. I assign that habit to my years as a youth leader, where it was my responsibility to ensure that the new young people were welcomed into the fold (that's sounds like something out of some spooky spiritual setting- sorry, you know what I mean). But sometimes I wait to see how/ when/ if ppl appr me first- I view it as a measure of the warmth and friendliness of the Church/ org...also the spiritual climate.
One of the non- students infront of me turns around and introduces himself to the person on my left. A while later, he turns and introduces himself to the person on my right. I'm ignored. Hopefully, it's because I'm sitting infront of my laptop and don't really appear too friendly. Hopefully I'm not reading too much into that slight. Hopefully, I don't have a chip on my shoulder.

Time to sign off and listen to our speaker- Corey Cleek, and a Duke MBA, with a great resume, including being the merchandiser manager for DC Talk on their Jesus Freak tour (hence my heading :) ).