Prayer for the Job Seeker

I haven't said much about my job search. Sometimes it's just too overwhelming, sometimes there is just nothing to say, but mostly I don't tell people because if I don't get something I don't like telling people that. In addition to the negativity of not being chosen it's additionally degrading to have to tell multiple people that I didn't get it.

Most people have had the right mix of knowing when to ask about the job search to show concern and care but not be overbearing.

Yesterday someone dear to me asked about the job hunt so I told her that I had a second interview today. Mid-day she sent a text saying she was praying which is very encouraging. Then she added this to her message:

Well. . .praying you dress right. Look right. Talk right. Sit right. Impress the right people. And THEN praying that we believe that none of that matters and that the job outcome will be a gift of God's will. . . yes if it's the right job for you or no if it would be a thorn in your life. Yes if the thorn would be meant to stretch and grow you. No if it would end up bringing out the worst in you.  So in the end just praying for you to do your best and then God's will be done!



Yes, yes, and yes. How perfect.

Time

I just read a post on Facebook about how fast July has gone by. I'm sitting in my recliner looking at a family picture taken in 2007. The niece on the end is married and in a job she loves, the next is ready to apply to med school, the next is married and finishing a program for a job she loves, the next is ready to start her final year of college before teaching elementary school because she loves kids and kids love her, the nephew is about to leave on a two-year international teaching assignment, the next little guy is a great young man going into (gulp!) 7th grade, the next nephew is in Great Britain in a golfing competition, the next niece is ready to begin her college career and the last niece is starting her last year of college.

And I don't ask where has July gone, I ask where have the years gone?

Thankful Thursday 07/11/13

1. Great trip visiting family over the holiday.
2. A/C. Need I say more?