The past month or so have
been a whirlwind of anticipation, excitement, and anxiousness. My wife and I accepted a new job with better
benefits and pay. The wait from applying
to interviewing, getting the call to accept the job offer, background checks
and all just added to the anxiousness.
The days before, wondering if we were making the right decision. I know I was praying to God that this was
indeed an opportunity from Him. I prayed
that He would help us through the whole process. I also prayed that he would guide us through
any difficult times or issues we might encounter and help us to be successful
in our new careers.
Before all this, for the past
couple years I have been praying consistently for a better opportunity. Not that we would be rich beyond our wildest
dreams, but so things wouldn’t be so much of a struggle, and we wouldn’t have
financial emergencies. We could do more
for and with our kids. Praying that we
could have enough to not only take care of our kids, but take care of ourselves
as well. Because you know, if you’re a
parent, you put your kids first and yourself second.
When we learned about this
opportunity, and I had just applied for the job, I was trying not to get ahead
of myself. I didn’t ever think I wouldn’t get the job, and I needed to
keep that in mind. I was at my previous
job at the time and working on my particular duties, and it just all hit
me. I just thought, was God making a way
for us?! With this new job was He really
making a way for us? I though wow, and I
froze as I thought about all that I prayed to Him about. At that moment I just had to hold back the
tears because I was coming to the realization that He was. I happened to be listening to my iPod at the
time and when the realization hit me, all my worship songs just started
playing, even when I pressed the skip button, there was another worship song
even with the iPod on “random.”
The
whole process we have been going through and are continuing with in our new job/training
just is an example of God’s work. The
company that hired us has been going through a lot of positive changes
recently. They’ve done improvements in
hiring, training, and incentives as well as stuff they do to help make the job
less stressful. The first week has been
just great and so have the people. They’ve
put a lot of thought and care in bringing new people on board. I’m really thankful to Him for this
opportunity.
