Life Lessons will be about what God has been teaching me of recent years. That’s not to say He didn’t teach me before that, it just has never seemed so well defined. So #1 doesn’t mean that’s the first God taught me, just where I started recording it. Theoretically they’ll be in chronological order, but there are no guarantees :)
God’s provision means to me things He has set out for us before we knew we would need them. It is something I have spoken of most of my life as a Christian. However, it didn’t really reach my heart so deeply until the middle of 2009 when I saw the results of events that took place years earlier. The most overwhelming examples were in the area of jobs for my husband and me.
When we first moved to MN we both worked for Wal-Mart. I strongly wished to be a stay at home mom when we had children, which obviously wouldn’t happen with those jobs. We soon found I was pregnant with our first child, so my husband started looking for a different job and I started looking for a work from home job. He got hired in November, we were due in February. His health insurance wouldn’t kick in until after 90 days – which ended up being just after our daughter was born. It wouldn’t cover the hospital bills. However, I had been unable to find a work from home job so we still had some benefits through my job. While on maternity leave I did find the perfect at home job for me and never had to go back to Wal-Mart.
About a year and a half later we had moved and I lost my job. We never would have considered me quitting to be a strictly stay at home mom. However, we found that with my husband’s yearly raises and our new home we could make it. Besides that the health benefits and other perks from my husband’s job saved us a lot and allowed us to enjoy some things we might not have otherwise. Money was tight, but though we periodically talked about me working again and tried a few things nothing worked out. Then my mother mentioned a website to me where I could do freelance writing. This turned out to be a perfect fit where I can work as I am able, choosing my jobs to fit my needs. It has potential to be there when the kids are older and in school and I can work more, and it can be worked from anywhere I have a computer and internet access.
We’ve had our own thoughts about what we need and plans for what to do. None of it ever would have put us in the position we are now. Yet if we had been given the choice we probably wouldn’t have chosen what we currently have. My husband works hard but does not greatly love his job. Money is constantly tight and it would be nice if it wasn’t. Being home with the kids sometimes makes me crazy. But it all works together and is good; a blessing.
“Great is Thy faithfulness oh God!…even though I feel unfaithful,” is what I find myself saying so often. What took me so long to understand this?
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