CFM is my Hobson's Choice

During my clearness committee meeting for membership last week, I was asked, why now? My story told...I tried a few other churches recently. Two Presbyterian. In the first one, everyone was very pleasant and friendly, it was an easy walking distance from my new house too. But the emphasis every Sunday was mostly on the historical Jesus, with the same old churchy yadda yadda...I never ever really liked smug preaching...I didn't find a reason to really care about a place or man 2,000+ years in the past... The second church, I lasted all of 7 minutes. Too noisy.

But why now? Because now is the time. Nothing could have been an option, but I felt I wanted something...this was my self talk as I cut the grass, or planted bushes. I used the Ben Franklin in my head, I listed all the good things I wanted and all the bad things I didn't want...and the thoughts would come and go...one thought was the famous Hobson's choice attributed to Henry Ford about his Model "T" Ford..."you can have any color as long as it's black"...and then the thought of Quakers came into my mind. I went to meeting the next day.