I've been unemployed now for about 2 months. Rather, I was laid off in January, but I decided to embrace the unemployment until graduation and then start looking for real jobs. So here I am, in Fort Worth, TX, looking for real jobs. This is the hardest. I feel a bit like I've been getting dumped every single day since graduation. And not in the good "let's just be friends" or even a "I hate you, get out of my life" kind of way. This is the more subtle approach of never calling back. So when a guy gets your number, sounds super-interested in you, and then never calls? But you pretend like you're not anxiously waiting by the phone for the next week... yeah, that kind of break up. Some days are better than others, of course. All that to say... I was reading a book called "Secure in the Everlasting Arms" by Elisabeth Elliot last night. Love her. Here's what I got from the chapter entitled "God in Each Moment"...
'In the barren places of my life I can be assured that God is there as He is when life is fruitful, and that the time is coming (give me patience, Lord, to wait!) when He will fulfill His word: "I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together so that people my see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this" (Isaiah 41:19-20)
Like little children on Christmas Eve, we know that lovely surprises are in the making. We can't see them. We have simply been told, and we believe. Tomorrow we shall see.'
Be encouraged that this is merely a passing moment.
1 comment:
Great post.
It will happen. A friend once said, "Pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on you."
And you have been doing that. It will happen.
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