Bad News/ Good News

Many of you know that I was informed mid November that I would be getting laid off December 20th, due to company restructuring. In other words, "we have had a few really bad years and can no longer keep you on full time, but have a seasonal position available for you if your willing to take a pay cut."

This was like a stab in my chest. As you know we are a two income family. Now my pay checks did not buy much, but they bought all our food, paid the cable bill, and pay for health ins. Plus any household items we need. So I came home that day and immediately revised my resume and uploaded it to Monster jobs .com. After about a week of putting in 3 to 4 applications a day, I had not heard anything. I started to worry a little, then I got a call from a retailer that they wanted to have an interview. A little ray of hope. The interview went well, but they informed me two days later that they had hired some one else.

Now I started to really worry. What would happen, how would we buy food how would we manage. Sure I would file for unemployment but it would be about half of what I normally brought home. Things were going to be tight. Then I realized that Christmas was only four weeks away. How on Earth would we do this? I have a rather large family and we typically do homemade gifts. I have been working on them since the beginning of November, but was wondering how I was going to finish them. As you can see I was worrying about too much. I then began praying that God would take away my worries and pray that he will provide. I felt much better, I still fell that way.

On Saturday My District Manager called me an offered me a promotion. He said that they did not want to loose me and he had an Area Managers position available. He said that he has been very impressed with my work and knows that I wanted to move up, So he was going to only offer this position to me. Wow! Now all I have to do is sit down with him and another District Manager and discuss the position and other odds and ends. It is only a formality. I should know more by next week but it looks like I will not be getting laid off. This will be a full time year round job. Salary not hourly but it is a steady job. My point is how strong faith, and prayer will help you past any road block in life. It may not happen in the time you think it should but it will happen in God's time.

Just my take on things.