Author: Charles Rohus

I have a hard time praying but the one thing I can always say to god is “thank you” I know every moment of my life is blessed and this past month is absolute proof of it.

I am reaching the end of my sabbatical and my thoughts keep coming back to “Isn’t this is the way life should always be?” this is the first time I have ever felt this refreshed and peaceful. The opportunity to take a break from everything I was used to, my regular routine was something I will always be grateful for. I’m going to miss all the extra time I had but I believe I will be coming back a better employee that is super excited to get back to work. I can’t wait to see you all again it. Catch you tomorrow morning!
I’m ugly—The person who makes it doesn’t need it. The person who buys it doesn’t want it. And the person who uses it hates to use it.

In 2007 my father gave me a book called The Shack. He thought it was important that I read it but I never really got around to looking into it. I thought he just wanted me to read it because the shack on the cover looked exactly like the house we had lived in. Now many years later I felt that during my sabbatical would be a great time to see what it was about. I would also get to be a big book hipster before the movie comes out. “the book was soooo much better than the movie”

So yeah it was a great story. I laughed. I cried. I wished God was a black woman. Dad if you are reading this… thanks for the book, I’m glad you gave it to me. I apologize for being 9 years late with this message into the void.

I’m also have been focusing on reading the Bible the last few days of my sabbatical. I usually find it difficult to understand what I am supposed to get from each verse or even just understand what is happening so I bought a guide that was suggested to me and it has been helping me with that quite a bit. I’m hoping that we will be doing Bible studies in my department again soon. Away from work the people I spend most of my time around don’t care at all about religious stuff so its a nice when I can talk about God and faith when possible.

Also pulled off a pretty cool feat. I took a 7 hour nap. I will be setting an alarm next time so that my sleep schedule doesn’t go crazy just before I have to go back to work.
Ben chooses the room full of tigers that would have starved to death months ago— I have a huge nose, messy unkempt hair, sunken bloodshot eyes, 4 chins and huge ears. What am I?

It’s true when I was told that my sabbatical plans were likely to change. My original plan was to help out with Love and Care Ministries but I had a hard time scheduling a time to volunteer with them. Luckily Meals on Wheels was eager to accept me as a volunteer. It was great working at Meals on Wheels. everyone who worked there was awesome and friendly. They made it really easy to get accustomed to their system. It was also great that all of the people I met on my various routes were nice and I was happy to have met them.

I think now that I am used to doing deliveries for Meals on Wheels it would be great to volunteer there again in the future.

Also don’t call the cops if you check the security cameras at FDLIC’s parking lot at 2AM and see some weirdos driving around in circles over and over. It might look like someone scoping out the place for a heist but I promise it’s just me teaching a friend how to drive. I had promised a long time ago that I would teach them to drive and I thought there wouldn’t be a better time than during my sabbatical.

So far I’ve had a fun and productive sabbatical!
Since Seth is only in trouble in your mind all you have to do is stop imagining that he is about to be destroyed. You can stop imagining now Matt.—Ben has to choose one of three rooms to spend the night. The first room has 3 tigers that haven’t eaten in a year, the second room contains 8 enraged walruses and the last room is full of bees. Just lots of bees. What room does Ben choose so that he doesn’t get hurt?

Pretend I wrote this on the 4th. This is a post dated post.
I helped out at the AYSA Sports Expo with several cool people which was really fun. I’m not sure how useful I was since I was coming off of really bad caffeine withdrawals and found it hard to drag myself out of bed and walk in a straight line. Other than that one early morning this sabbatical thing is pretty nice for my restfulness. Pretty sure I was born to wake up at 4PM every day and fill my day with naps and meditation.
Speaking of meditation I had a though while meditating that was somewhat related to our business: I really hate it when a funeral plays one of my favorite songs and I am unable to enjoy it ever again. “Simple Man” by Lynard Skynyrd and “Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong are ruined because they remind me of my dead brother and uncle. So I decided I only want songs that I hate to be played at my funeral. That way afterwards people can be like “Oh this song makes me sad because it reminds me of one of the times Charles died, but I’m also annoyed because it’s still ‘Achy Breaky Heart'” As an added bonus it will help people move on after my death because if I play “Whip My Hair” and “All About That Bass” everyone will be glad I’m dead.
Imagine Seth is in the middle of the ocean on a small boat full of angry bears. Sharks are swarming the boat and a pterodactyl is swooping at him. How do you save Seth?