The End / The Beginning

Today marks the end of a season and the beginning of a new one. Today is my last day (actually jut a few hours) at one job and the first day in the office (afternoon) at a new job.

Today is the end of a season at one place that has been an interesting experience. I experienced highs and lows, respect and sabotage. I thank God for this job that allowed me to grow in areas both professionally and personally.

Today is the beginning of a new season at a new job. The new job is one of possibilities and excitement I can hardly contain. I thank God for this job and that will allow me to grow in new ways, ways that I cannot even comprehend at this moment.

How often do we have to end something to allow room to begin something else?

I Need a Heart Change

I have written a number of blogs about not being fulfilled in my job, May 22nd – Am I Being Used; Aug 16th – How Honest Should You Be; Aug 23rd – Do I Dare; Sept 16th Crushed. My current employment lacks just about everything except the ability to pay the bills. I have been actively looking for a different job since October 2006. I have had interviews and once I even thought I had found my dream job only to have the deal fell through at no fault of my own. I became extremely disappointed, disappointed to the point that the attitude about my job was affecting pretty much every other area of my life.

Proverbs 13:12 (New International Version)
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

By December I had reached the end, I just was done taking the flack, the disrespect, and the disorganization. I stood in the parking lot on December 12th and told a friend of mine that I didn’t understand why I was still there and a new job had not come available, but if God wanted me to stay in that position He would have to change my heart so that I didn’t hate my life.

On December 31st after updating my resume I saw a position on Monster that looked promising so I submitted my resume for consideration. Less than 90 minutes later the hiring manager called and for the next 1 ½ hour I had my 1st phone interview with that company. Over the next 2 ½ weeks I interviewed in person and on the phone with six others from that company until finally on January 17th at 5:30pm I was offered a job.

Why did this job go through? Why did the others fall through? I had asked God for a heart change about my job before. I had prayed and had the elders pray for me about my job. I may never know why, but this I do know, God is never late.

So first thing Friday morning, January 18th, I walked into my boss’s office and gave my 2 week notice. God gave me the best birthday gift possible for this season.

New Blessing

21 Days of Focused Prayer – Day 5
Gen 12:2-3; Prov 8:21; 10:22; Ecc 5:19; 3Jn 1:2

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (New Living Translation)
And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.


For the last few weeks I have been asking the Lord to change my attitude about my job. I have a job that pays me enough to meet my financial responsibilities with a little left over for other things. I am good at my job and have the ability to excel given half a chance. This job is not fun, fulfilling or edifying and the worst part of it is that I have let the job affect other areas of my life. I sometimes come home from work cranky and I am dealing with some major disappointments from this past year when I interviewed with other companies and for various reasons I was not chosen for the new position. As I was studying these verses on blessing I see where I need to look at my job for what it does give me and see it as a gift from God. My job is a BLESSING.