The Hunt is On
Sadly, I have become part of a statistic. I am 1 of the 14.9 million U.S. unemployed workers. That’s 14,899,999 people that I am with in the same boat. Dang, that’s a large boat. I hope no one gets seasick. Can you imagine the clean up?
I was laid off last Friday, right before the Labor Day holiday. I promised myself one week of vacation, a week in where I would not consider a job search, resume editing, or freak-out crying hysterics. I start all that today. I may try to avoid the latter – it’s exhausting and doesn’t accomplish much. So, I have a busy day ahead of me.
Let’s rewind for a minute. The weekend I received the news about the lay-off, my husband and I went to a church on the northwest side of Chicagoland called Willow Creek. While we were there, we felt very refreshed and heard a great word from one of the teaching staff, Darren Whitehead. Today I really wanted to start off this new journey in my life with God’s direction and took some time in prayer. I also checked out Willow’s site, curious to see what past messages they had available for viewing. I came across a video from August 2008 where Darren spoke about decision making. You can see the video here. It was exactly what I needed in response to my desire to pursue what God has for me, His will, and how everything will work out.
Anybody remember Amy Grant’s Thy Word? I grew up with this song (and Amy, but that’s another post) and knowing this scripture from the many Missionettes meetings. (I am proud to say I’m an Honor STAR, but dang it all, it can’t quite hold its own on a resume. Shocking, right? And I will not suffer you to follow a link to the site. The program has changed a lot).
AND back to the reason for this. Psalm 119:105 (ESV) “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Every time I heard it, I heard Amy. But today it had new perspective. I’m a hardcore Type A and I love plans, schedules, and knowing what’s going to happen. I hate being caught unprepared. But Darren spoke that God’s word is a light to our immediate path, our footsteps, not a floodlight to our entire journey. We have to trust God to take us down this path, for reasons we may not understand. I like to try and determine those reasons (there’s an answer to everything, yes?). I wonder if he is shielding me from my purpose, for if I were to see it now, would I panic and retrace my steps or jump to a new path? Maybe there isn’t anything down the path to frighten me, but He simply is asking me to learn to trust Him.
So my day will be spent editing resumes and hopefully sending out a few. God does ask that we help out with this journey. We must take the steps, He will guide the way. What’s around the corner is still to be determined.