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Hello all, so I will admit the past year and a half has not been easy on me at all. I have had to deal with bad management at jobs, low pay at my most recent job, a pretty bad back injury which took me out of the gym, multiple hurricanes ruining my apartment and one of my cars, and I ended up having to move back in with my parents because my apartment shortly after the storms became pretty unlivable. And just some other personal things on top of that.
But today, that streak has been completely broken. Two hours ago, I got a call from an IT job that I had done an interview at on Thursday, and a final interview at yesterday. They ended up offering me the job! Despite the fact that I technically don't have tech experience in a corporate environment (i have been mostly working at repair shops and help desks and such), they ended up liking my personable skills, energy, motivation, and knowledge of what I do know better than two other candidates who had a little experience over me.
For a while, I was starting to get really concerned about my future and didn't know what the path forward for me was going to look like. But today, God finally answered my prayers, after 7 and a half years of working lower level retail/help desk type positions, and gave me a path forward for my life and career. I was finally given my foot in the door into a more corporate setting and the opportunity to gain real experience. I feel incredibly blessed right now and am so glad that I didn't give up.
Thanks for reading and hope everyone has a great night :)
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Child of Light
Sometimes the bad things you have been through helps you to appreciate it even more when life finally improves. (If you’re familiar with my profile and related blogs you will know what I mean). My mom says that God allows the bad things in life because they provide the contrast that enables us to more fully appreciate the good things. For example illness helps us to appreciate good health. Ugliness helps us to appreciate beauty. Even the inevitablity of death helps us appreciate the preciousness and sanctity of life. You’ve experienced bad things. Now the good things that are coming your way will feel even better when contrasted with what you went through. I know.
I'm not sure how I ended up missing this, but this is so true! I love the way you put it, sometimes God ends up putting us through some really hard and dark times so that we can truly appreciate when the blessings happen.
For me, unfortunately, I ended up having to lose almost everything I had to realize that I couldn't make my life better on my own. This whole time, God has been calling out to me to trust him and him alone, but for years I didn't hear him, and in fact mocked him.
The past month or so since I made the blog post, I have relentlessly been working on myself with the newfound strength given to me by God. I'm doing my damn best to fix and regain what I lost - my physical and mental health, my finances (at least it's going in the right direction now), picking up everything I can at the new job, and learning how to truly let go of the wheel sometimes and trust in him.
We all end up going through hard times, but it's how we react to them to really show if we are cross-bearers or not. Will we turn back to worldly desires so that we feel better, or do we continue living out for him even when things aren't going our way.
Thanks for sharing, have a good night man!
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April
God works in wonderful ways!! so proud of you. keep that happiness going!! and have fun at your new job :-)
thank you so much :-)
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April
God works in wonderful ways!! so proud of you. keep that happiness going!! and have fun at your new job :-)