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(Please excuse the word “potential” and his thesaurus buddies in this entry… I realize it sounds like a criminal case where you hear the word “allegedly” so much that you want to scream, even though you’re know the person is guilty. Anyways, I’m just being cautiously optimistic about this situation.)

Good news… I may have stumbled upon a new/old job. More on “new/old” in a bit. I woke up this morning and checked my e-mail. I saw an e-mail that was sent probably five minutes or so after I got off the computer last night (I have a feeling God wanted me to see it this morning, first thing). It was from my old boss at the Statesman Journal newspaper. He told me that they were “likely” going to have a sports assistant opening in the “near future” and he wanted to know if I was interested. Uh, yeah!

Now the back story. I worked as a sports assistant at the paper for eight months in 2008. I left the job because I was working a full time job in addition to this position. 60+ hour weeks became too much, so I left the paper since it was part time. At the time, I made the decision that was right for me. I left on good terms and my boss was sad to see me go. I’m glad no bridges were burned because it might come in handy right about now. Anyways, since I’m being offered this potential position again, it’s a new/old job.

Here’s the thing. I have been super annoyed and frustrated with the unemployment office lately. I recently had to file a new claim, they messed some stuff up and I may owe some overpaid benefits, and they were giving me hassles because I filed as an employee of Corban University from my track coaching job. Bottom line, I was getting fed up. I began to consider giving up on unemployment and just deal with not getting benefit checks.

Yesterday, I made up my mind that I was done with unemployment. I began to think about some devotionals I had read recently about putting actions behind your faith in God. They talked about finding ways in your daily life to put actions to your faith. This seemed like a perfect way for me to act out my faith. During all these months of claiming unemployment, I claimed my checks and half-heartedly searched for jobs a lot of the time… often searching just to justify claiming my benefit check. I was leaning on those checks with no real urgency to find a job a lot of the time. I truly did believe in my mind that God would provide a job, but as I mentioned about love a few days ago, saying something and showing it are two different things. I decided to throw away my unemployment crutch so I could genuinely trust God for a job. With no money coming in each week, I wanted to fully rely on God, with faith that he would provide.

Little did I know he was going to provide something so quickly! (potentially, of course)

Now, this job was part time before, so I’m guessing it’ll be the same this time around. I’m waiting for him to get back to me on some questions I had. A full time job is most desirable, obviously… but anything works for me right now. There’s nothing quite like a paycheck that you earned, not one that the government gave to you because you fulfilled your unemployment obligations.

Praise God for coming through. I know he always does, and I know I don’t give him the credit for lots of things he orchestrates in my life. But it’s really cool to see cause and effect situations in my life where I know for CERTAIN that God put it all together. It’s so cool to see and experience.

We’ll see if this potential job offer becomes a legitimate one… hopefully soon!

-Lee

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