Trucking Along
Another week is ending and we're getting ready for more changes with the start of my new job in a week. Many friends and family have encouraged us with emails but are also wondering about me completing seminary. It's a tough situation that we're in. Not tougher than anyone else who has gone before us, but tough none the less. It was tough to leave Birmingham, but it was a decision we thought necessary.
I must say that I did not pursue a job for the sake of working. When we were in Birmingham, we watched my two jobs, a growing family and just the stage of life we were in edge my seminaries out with each passing day. In the last year we were there, my studies dwindled down to nearly a standstill. A change was necessary. We prayed for a job, just one job, that would allow us to survive and me finish my M.Div. The Lord answered that prayer in the form of Les getting a teaching job and our moving to Georgia.
We soon realized that I would have to work in some fashion too. I tried to get an evening job by applying to a number of places. But the Lord shut all those doors. I was a bit frustrated. But for reasons unknown to us no job door opened. Then we got word about the opportunity at MTW and the doors started swinging open. We weren't looking in this direction, but the Lord made it clear. We are going to do this as long as is necessary but hope soon that Les will be able to stay home.
Sometimes I wonder why God didn't just send us a large check (or that lottery ticket!). Why do we both need to work when He owns the cattle on a thousand hills? But the bottom line is that we need to recover financially from our time in Birmingham. Looking back we can see all the "should haves" and "wish we hadn'ts." But none the less, this is where we are and this is what we need to do to move forward.
I do plan on finishing seminary. I'm not sure how. It's not going to be easy. But we haven't given up and we're not going to. Staying in the situation we were in in Birmingham wouldn't have gotten me through seminary any quicker. We decided that a change was the only way to move forward. And so we think we are going to move forward now. I hope that in the next two years I'll be done. We'll see...
I must say that I did not pursue a job for the sake of working. When we were in Birmingham, we watched my two jobs, a growing family and just the stage of life we were in edge my seminaries out with each passing day. In the last year we were there, my studies dwindled down to nearly a standstill. A change was necessary. We prayed for a job, just one job, that would allow us to survive and me finish my M.Div. The Lord answered that prayer in the form of Les getting a teaching job and our moving to Georgia.
We soon realized that I would have to work in some fashion too. I tried to get an evening job by applying to a number of places. But the Lord shut all those doors. I was a bit frustrated. But for reasons unknown to us no job door opened. Then we got word about the opportunity at MTW and the doors started swinging open. We weren't looking in this direction, but the Lord made it clear. We are going to do this as long as is necessary but hope soon that Les will be able to stay home.
Sometimes I wonder why God didn't just send us a large check (or that lottery ticket!). Why do we both need to work when He owns the cattle on a thousand hills? But the bottom line is that we need to recover financially from our time in Birmingham. Looking back we can see all the "should haves" and "wish we hadn'ts." But none the less, this is where we are and this is what we need to do to move forward.
I do plan on finishing seminary. I'm not sure how. It's not going to be easy. But we haven't given up and we're not going to. Staying in the situation we were in in Birmingham wouldn't have gotten me through seminary any quicker. We decided that a change was the only way to move forward. And so we think we are going to move forward now. I hope that in the next two years I'll be done. We'll see...
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