Hello! You know you haven't blogged for a long time when my goggle chrome doesn't recognize it right away. ha! Due to my senior year, I haven't kept up with this here blog. Might be time, but probably more because after writing papers all the time, it's the last thing I want to do.Anyway, I thought I would share with you what's been going on in our career paths as of the end of the summer. It's been quite the rollercoaster!
*Let's go back a little further. During our first year of marriage, life and careers took turns and twists and we both found ourselves starting the summer of 2011 in our original summer jobs that we swore we would never return to. But God worked. David was able to bring Zach on at Agri-tech, which was a real blessing for him. I was able to help a new boss get going at faith, plus I made two very good friends! Tashika and Liz! Scratch that-3... Ceceilia (my new boss) of course!In the end, we were both thankful God put us where he did.
*SO, At the beginning of the summer I received a phone call from a friend asking if she could give David's number to someone who was in need of a Property Manager for his rental business. I of course said yes! David met with the man, and they temporarily agreed but David couldn't start til the end of the summer. SO basically we were stoked out of our minds that David would get such an amazing opportunity and that God showed us this at the beginning of the summer, so David wouldn't stress out about having a job for the fall.
*David ended his summer at the end of August, and had quit Lowes permanately that spring, and was ready to become a property manager! Then the thing that you never want...He could not get a hold of the man for 2 weeks. He finally met with him, they agreed to a 6 month plan where David would slowly take over the business and made it "official"...but didn't sign anything. Over the course of the next two weeks, we started our management company, we decided to keep the truck for work purposes -even though we had originally decided to sell the truck when we get a new car. I say two weeks, because it happened again. We couldn't get a hold of him. David fiinally did, where they met at 7AM for breakfast, contracts in hand. David came home a half an hour later. Business deal officially off. The man no longer needed him. I will never forget the feeling of my heart falling into my stomach when I heard that door open at 7:30AM.
*We bummed out for a few minutes than we started talking about how God must be protecting us from something. We were also wary of a few small but potentially big issues with the person, so we could see how we may have dodged a bullet. But we were left answering the question, WHY?? The entire time, we felt like this experience was such a GOD thing. He orchestrated it to fall into place. We found out at a great time, as to eliminate stress on David. We made decisions we wouldn't have done otherwise. But our greatest issue was wasted time. Not only did we miss out on a months worth of pay, but it meant more days without pay while David searched for a job. We just don't understand it all. Yes, God definitely could have used this blimp in our life to perfect timing, and to help us make decisions we wouldn't have otherwise. But still...why this? Why get our hopes up to a level I never thought existed...then this??? I know there's a reason...but for now I wait and trust my God.
*Where are we now? Well David got a job at Wells Fargo as a Loan Document Specialist and just got home from his 3rd day. Insurance, pay we need and great hours. Praise the Lord! I am even more thankful for his summer job that carried us this fall while he didn't work. The week we got our new car (a week before school started), God worked it out for me to get a nanny job! It has worked out perfectly! It has been such a blessing. In other news, BIG news, I just got offered an internship position with the medical programming director at the YMCA Healthy Living Center of DSM. SO stoked. God really worked in that too. My dad is really good friends with the Head director there, who is a Christian. Come to find out he is on our board for my major, so I snagged him when it was time to do mock interviews. Thankful that my Dad was kind to the man! Here I am...an intern :) I start next semester!
*Thanks to everyone for praying for us as we journey through this part of our lives! Have you been through a time you didn't understand and asked God "WHY?"...How did you handle it? What did you discover? I would really appreciate your input!
10 comments:
So excited for you! We are looking at huge changes with trying to get to the farm by Summer. Can't sell the house till May 12th (I am secretly thankful for that.) Looking forward to hearing more. We need to catch up sometime. :)
Thank you so much! By Summer? WOW! That's exciting!Your baby girl is getting SO big :)
Jennie,
This reminds me SOOO much of our job situations last year. Nate was working for a farmer and I was student teaching. Needless to say "WE WERE BROKE!" lol. I loved the school that I was student teaching at and 2 positions opened up and one was in the grade level I was student teaching. I had a GREAT relationship with my cooperating teacher and thought I would definitely get the job. I was interviewed at the end of March and found out a few days later that I did NOT recieve the job. I was SO bummed and had no idea why I would get placed to student teach there and have jobs become available and NOT get the job. For the next month I applied to 15 other school districts and found eventually in May got two interviews in one week. I ended up getting a job in a town 20 miles away from where we live. I definitely see the blessings of being in the school district that I am now in and see how all of my knowledge from student teaching at the other school has benefited me. Also, Nate was just working for a farmer when all of this was going on and he got offered a job at a Seed Company last December. One of his wrestling coaches from highschool came up and offered him the job because a guy was quitting. God works in crazy, amazing ways and I am SURE there is a reason for everything that has happened! (Even though you might not see it right now!) Love you!
Charis :)
Charis, Sometimes I think God just copies and pastes our life experiences to the other person..haha..we always seem to be going through the same things. Which is such a blessing! Thank you for sharing, it's such an encouragement to me when I can see how God has worked in similar situation in others lives! So happy you guys are where you are :) Stability is always a good thing ;) Miss you!
love the update! i was completely devastated when i couldn't afford to go to dmacc this fall. like cried-for-3-days kind of devastated. and then it was slowly piece by piece God kept working so that i wouldn't find that "amazingly perfect job" i kept thinking i could find, so that i would miss school, so that i would miss working with kids, so that i would take the time to actually find out who i am when i'm not living for other people's expectations. and that's when i found out i want to be a teacher. i may be a few years behind on the "normal" timeline of life, but God's preparing me for the life He has planned for me, not the one i'm working towards. So maybe David's goal is to be a property manager, and so this seems like a detour. But maybe God's plan is much greater, and needs different avenues that only make sense from His point of view. I'll be praying that He shows it to you quickly though, patience is not an easy virtue!
Two months before we were to get married, Tim got fired. I definitely asked God why as he had insurance, great pay, etc. A month later, he found a job that he thought would be temporary until he got something better--huge pay cut, not really what he wanted, etc. Well, now 2 years later I've seen that this job allows him time to do writing-related stuff that he really likes to do as he wants to be a fiction writer. At this point, I have a good job and hopefully sometime either Tim's writing career will take off or he'll get a better job with all the degrees he has, but for now God is FAITHFUL and provides, so I am extremely thankful and blessed. Another why question is Tim's school loans--they were hard for me to accept at first, but I know now that God gave them to us to make sure I was putting my trust in HIM to provide the money month-by-month for our expenses. I love the hope I have in HIM!
Melyssa- you are so wise. I love how you are so good at seeing God work in your life and others around you. Thanks so much for sharing your story, and I'm so glad that God has gotten you where you are! Thanks for your prayers and encouragement best fraan :)
Rachel- Thank you so much for sharing your story! It is neat how you have come to a place to accept and even appreciate where Tim is- even if it wasn't what you planned. Also, that God has provided a great job for you! Not sure how people live without the Hope of Him...Thanks so much, you're always an encouragement, I appreciate it!
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