Friday, May 13, 2011

Sunshine Thursday, Cool on Friday

Whew.


Blogger appears to be back and running!


Yay!!!


I imagine that there was a lot of stress for them


as blogger was down for a whole day,


which in social media these days is like a year.


We of little patience.


God save us.



Well,



after that unexpected day of seeing people



trained to help me get a job two years later,



I realized once again that I was caught off guard.



Really I have yet to learn to live as a Christian.



By which I mean that the more rooted a Christian is,



the less likely unexpected correlations and events



will throw them off.



I have much to learn but I am thankful that God's mercies



are new every morning.





Last evening I got news that I do have a second interview



in person sometime next week.



*



2 years, my friends, of interviewing.



Will this interview be my last for a while?



Really, even when I did have work,



I was still interviewing every year;



my first jobs were temporary contracts,



a year or less.



I have not counted how many interviews and applications I have done.



Applications certainly 100 or more.



Interviews... 20 at minimum in the last years...





Don't you just love this picture?


I do.


It is of my favourite walk to see my beloved


favourite tree


and actually one of my favourite houses.


I realized I must go back again to do some


actual photographs of the house.


Actually it is just the back of the house.


I just love it.


Ramshackled.


Eccentric.


Large Angel white statue with wings,


metal bird shapes in the back yard;


it reminds me of how I thought things would be for me


one day.


You know,


Family, house, eccentric book filled goodness,


not streamlined or at all corporate or minimalist.


No, just full of life,


a place where all would feel welcome.


Anyway.


That is what that house reminds me of.


*


Yesterday a good friend emailed their


assurances of prayer as I go towards another interview.


In the email was included that all my dreams


would be fulfilled.




I feel like I have had my hopes dashed so many times.


That I have lost so much,


so many dreams of what I thought my life would be.


By the end of June I will be half way to being 35.


(i.e. end of December I will be 35).


I never dreamed that the end of my twenties and early thirties


would be filled with uncertainty and continual job searching.


But I also never dreamed that I would be in


the Orthodox church and have a spiritual father.


So I have been given something very great...


*


Anyway.


It is hard not to get my hopes up about this new


interview. Even though I know that work itself


is not easy.


*


Meanwhile,


I will continue to seek to learn to pray with hope.


*


Christ is Risen.

2 comments:

Matushka Anna said...

Indeed He is Risen!

There is a reason clairvoyance is only given to the most holy of people - the rest of us wouldn't be able to handle it. Goodness knows I couldn't have bourne knowing some of the things I was to go through, but God's grace has brought me this far. I've decided that not being able to see into the future is actually a gift.

((hugs)) and prayers!

GretchenJoanna said...

My favorite picture here is the first one, with the light filtering through the branches of that tree!

So glad to know you have that second interview. I know I always hear how good for a person it is, to do interviews, to get the practice. You must be an expert now!