Luke,

I think what you've been told is good, and if that guiding grace is coming from WITHIN you're probably going in the right direction. But to my mind the most important question is "Am I free to disagree, and to leave?" (I belong to a minority religion that is constantly having to guard its rights. And I have had a child in the hospital, with the staff respecting our viewpoint and had them coming to us expressing their amazement that our praying seemed to be having an effect beyond our son's bed to the whole ICU ward...)

Peter,

My dad was a lawyer and hated it. (He became one because he thought he should to please his father. He'd have much rather been an engineer.) My brother is one as well and loves it. I know several lawyers who do it for all the right reasons, and some who are really nasty people. I think most are not, but I do wish that sometime someone would stand up and say "enough, already! If you're guilty, plead guilty! I won't swallow camels and strain out gnats for someone who has done something wrong and been well and fairly caught out!" Trouble is, and I know 'cause I've had lawyers tell me they did just that, there seems to be plenty of the bad eggs around who see it all as a game and will take those cases... I'm glad to know you're around, if I do need someone with honor.

Now, how do you want that chicken?

Cami Su