Yeah, you heard me correctly. I got a job!! :)
So, I suppose some explaining is needed.
And, here it goes. Over the summer, I was able to take a Certified Nurses Assistant class in Huntsville at Drake State. The class was two weeks long, which includes your clinicals at a veterans affairs place in town. You get a lot of information thrown at you, but a lot of it I had already been taught through the Medical Academy at Sparkman, so I was fine and finished at the top of the class. The very top. :) So, that was great. Well, after job training comes the process of finding a job. Yay... Except, it was actually pretty great. I got in contact with my FLC (Freshman Learning Community) teacher from last fall (who is, very conveniently I might add, a geriatrics doctor in the area with lots of connections within the nursing home/assisted living community here) and asked her what places I should start with. She sent me back a list of about 4 places with names and numbers for the people that I should get in contact with about a job. So, I called the places and left messages with all of them early this week. Well, one of the places called me back and wanted me to come in to fill out an application and do an interview, which is what I did this morning. Little did I know that my teacher had already spoken with the executive director of the place and given me a shining recommendation, which is probably what landed me a job. Have I said that I really love that teacher? Truly, she was amazing and I did take a lot away from that class, but I suppose that I don't really expect anyone to go out of their way to do something that great for me. And, I'm realizing now as I'm writing this, that it was all God from the very beginning. The whole process has been pretty easy for me so far, which I know is from God working in this situation and providing me with a job. While the job isn't exactly what I wanted, which was a strict part time or possibly even full time (if my schedule could handle it) job, I'm so grateful that I have somewhere to start, and God is the one who opened up the doors to make it happen. I'm so very excited to get in there and sign a ton of paperwork and go through my 20 or so training videos, it's not even funny. And, yes, I did just say that I was excited to watch 20 training vidoes, and it's all because I'm just plain excited about finally having a job!
And, right now the scripture that's coming to mind is this:
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
I bolded the part above because that's the part that I always seem to remember and hold on to the most. A lot of translations use the word "plans" instead of "thoughts" in this verse, which is actually how I always think of it, but, looking at it now, the word "thoughts" is actually really great here. God is thinking thoughts of peace "to give you a future and a hope" towards King Nebuchadnezzar here. So, why would He not be doing the same thing for us?
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