Temporary Excitement :)

So, many of you probably already know this, but I now have a job!

My first day was today! I'm working as a teller for a local bank here in Knoxville. Today was really good and just some reassurance of knowing that this is right, for the time being. It's a temporary job that is supposed to last 6-8 weeks. I'm filling in for someone on maternity leave. I'm not making much but I really think that I'm going to like this job and I think that there is a lot of potential here to be long term and to be promoted quickly within the bank. I really like the banking atmosphere. I've been working in it for the past year and a half and I have enjoyed the people and the atmosphere that it provides. I'm looking forward to getting some more experience in the banking world and seeing what happens next.

In the midst of all this  I've still been so worried about what's going to be happening next and what about in 6 weeks when I'm jobless again and what about all the other details of my life that have seemed to fall into place so many other times before. I read Matthew 6:25-34 earlier tonight on one of my friends blogs and am once again reminded of how God continues to provide for and take care of me. I use the phrase "the events of the last 2 years" - now more like 2 and a half - a lot. It's kind this huge sad sob story that I like to cling to. When really, God has taken care of me in ways that have been so unexpected and that I have not acknowledged until later when I realized what had happened. Even though it didn't seem like He was taking care of me, He was saving me and molding my life into what he wants it to be. I hated my job and I lost it. I bought a condo and I found renters - again and again. I moved to Knoxville and have friends here. My house got broken into and I have a roommate that makes life cheaper feel easier. I was not liking my job and under a HUGE amount of stress about it and I lost it. I was able to spend the last two months enjoying my family and thinking of how I want to change my life. I was looking for a job and I found one. Even though its temporary and there is some stress related to pressure from another recruiter about some different possibilities, but I have this strange comfort in this job and knowing that I'm going to ENJOY my job! While I have no idea what He wants for my life and what the next step is going to be, I have faith that He will be my Provider.
 

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Thoughts that will be coming up next related to the question: What is my passion?