It's Not Easy To Walk by Faith When Your Out Of Work

During this time I have been out of work I have been put to the test of walking by faith. This test is not for the faint of heart. You will have many difficulties and trials.

First you must master the Jobs Boards. No longer do you walk into a store and fill out a application. I first encountered this before Christmas when a manager said the only way she could read my resume' was through the computer. The first application and resume' took me several days as I could not even remember my work experience. Hint - {I started working in 1966.}

Several days latter I finally triumphed and filled out almost 20 pages for one job, only to be told when I went back to the store that they we hiring back their college age people for Christmas.

This was only the beginning of my journey through the dark black hole of the job boards. Next, with frustration I headed out and just went into stores filling out applications and giving them my resume.

Finally coming to my wits end I saw a company on the TV and walked in the next day and asked them if they were hiring. To my surprise they said "yes".

Later, three weeks later their name appeared on my caller ID

Still, it really isn't full time work. I finally have realized where our President has lead this country, because 13 million others are with me in this walk of faith and desperation.

Little does it seem he know or cares, with 16 vacations and hundreds of campaign fund raisers, I am convinced that he is not spending too much time on this. Perhaps I seem a little sharp in my assessment, but it is me who has to come up with the monies to exist. Thankfully there have been several who have helped me on my journey or my story could be worse. Nor is it yet over.

Today I read 88 million are not now in the work force. God Bless them and may God please help our country to get back on it's feet.

Walking by faith

Tonight I was at the grocery store and a woman who works there has become a friend of mine. I was in the new line where you check out yourself. Which, by the way, I love. You don't have to wait for price checks or anything. She was standing there talking to me and my tomatoes came up to five dollars. I was shocked. Prices have risen sharply the last few months. And it seems that I am getting gas continually. I really have to think more about my trips and what I am doing. Trying to work it out so I don't make extra trips. In Chicago we have one of the highest gas prices in the country. And in a month or so they will add summer additives. We are one of only five states who have this. So we will be paying highest prices by summer. My friend at the store said the government has to do something. I agree and most of the decisions the government has made lately have made our lives worse.

I am glad for my faith in God that he knows these problems and he will help to supply my needs. Sometimes we have to just sit back and say I don't know how we are going to get through this. But God will make a way. I know it sounds polyanish. but walking by faith is much better than worry and fear. I am glad for a spiritual husband who always talked about walking by faith. Now that he is gone I hear his words so much stronger. Plus I have tapes to listen to that not only do I get to hear his voice, but still his guidance in my life.

It is not easy to walk by faith, but it is much harder to try to work it out yourself. God will lead you through these hard times if you let him. The key is to pray and let him lead. He will not forsake his own.Trust him to guide you through these hard times.

Faith

Many people have tried to help me through this time of loss of my husband. Many have called me, e-mailed me, written me and stopped by. But none of them have done what a little note sent to me by my Aunt Kay, my father's sister did. She sent something that finally reached my heart. And it helped me to feel like going on. Oh yes, I am human and wonder at times why I must go on without my husband. Each day gets a little better, each day gets a little worse. It starts getting better because you start healing, and it gets worse because you realize they are not coming back. Like a roller coaster ride up and down. But through all of this my Aunt sent a little note and a little ray of light started shining through my tunnel. We all have tunnel times in our lives. This verse simple yet effective in it's message reached me and helped me to see clearer. We must at times walk by faith. God taught Abraham to walk by faith and it pleased God. And God blessed him immeasurably beyond anything he had ever dreamed because he followed in the darkness. Maybe you are walking in darkness right now too, with your business, your marriage or some other trial. May this little verse reach your darkness also.

                                                                   FAITH

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen.

There will be something for you stand upon- or you will be taught to Fly."