I am returning to the work force. What an answer to prayer! I am going to be a bookkeeper for a local roofing company, which pretty much takes off from what I have spent the last two years busting my butt learning how to do! School wasn't a waste! I will be working part-time so I am still in the process of figuring out child care for the girls, but I am lucky to have lots of friends and family around who are willing to help. I think I am still in shock that I actually am employed. We were sure that I didn't get it, I mean totally convinced. And then the email came! This has definitely been a time of growth in my life though.
After the interview God really began putting his finger on my problems with stress and worry. I am bad at fretting over things that are out of my control. I lay awake at night with my brain going on overdrive...it is not healthy. So I listened to our pastor from California (he has podcasts on iTunes, I highly recommend him) a few days after the interview and he was speaking out of Philippians. In the Message it says:
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious--the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.
Philippians 4: 6-8
This has been speaking to me like crazy for the past couple of weeks. It was exactly what I needed to hear. Matt says I am a pessimist and he is the optimist. In some ways I agree and I always thought that was just the way things were. Now I have changed my mind. I'm going to change that about myself. Whenever I began to worry about the job, or the girls, or Matt getting enough hours, or anything I would stop, tell myself not to be anxious, and it would calm me down...every single time! I actually got to the point where if I wouldn't have gotten the job it would have been ok...I knew something else would be there. But then surprise!! I love the part that talks about "God's wholeness coming to fill me up" because that is exactly how it felt. I'd start to worry and as soon as I made the choice to turn it off, I felt peace and assurance fill my spirit.
So I start the week of the 21st and we will figure out a schedule then. I am lucky because they are super flexible and are willing to work with what I can do. Time to kick the debt out of our lives forever!! Soon I'll be calling Dave Ramsey and shouting that I am DEBT FREE!!!
4 comments:
Okay first, YIPPPEEE!!! Second, you will have to let me know how working again goes for you (not that we don't work our tails off, but you know what I mean!). As Mark's paychecks shrink, there is a very real possibility that I will have to go back part-time. UGH! And third, no Albertsons? no problem. Head on over to my dear friend Sarah's site: http://athriftymom.com/, where she has deals from a zillion different grocery stores (scroll down and on the right hand side you will see logos for tons of different stores). Hope that helps!
CONGRATULATIONS!! Give me lots of warning so I can listen in to your "I'm Debt FREEEEEE!" :)
Congrats on the new job!
Have you ever read "Calm My Anxious Heart" by Linda Dillow? If not, you should. I used to worry myself into a frenzy and then I realized it didn't help. Now I should probably worry once in a while . . .
My hubby and I are in week 4 (or is it 5) of the Dave Ramsey class and loving it! I think it should be a required class in high school or at LEAST a prerequisite of marriage :)
P.S. And I have been couponing via Ambers fabulous websites.
congratulations :)
Post a Comment