Great Snowy Week

God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.

I am relaxing on this beautiful sunny Sabbath day listening to birds sing, and cars drive by. Last week, I was blessed to be home during the first blizzard of the year and prepared for it. I also had no trouble getting out early Monday morning driving my car and taking two trains to get to the office on time. When I did get into the city, the Lord blessed me with free and easy parking in areas where it was difficult to come by. When I thought I would be in one place in the city, the Lord directed my steps to a better location. The night prior, I wondered what I would do for parking. I looked at option using the satellite feature of my map app and focused on a shopping center parking lot in one area. When God changed my plans, I was driving in a direction I never took before and soon realized with great surprise that the area I was driving through was the one I had looked at the night before. I ended up not parking there, but found a place closer after my first meeting was over.

I was the first person in the office. I usually get there before other supervisors and the CEO and I enjoy getting in early because, that means I can leave early.

Leaving early feels like a treat, like a boss saying, "Everyone gets the rest of the day off." I find it easier to concentrate on my tasks and can organize my calendar better when the day starts at 6:30am or 7:00am. 

I am working on developing better habits. I use my phone to read ebooks from an out of state library website and now I use it to play back audio of Bible text from my Youversion app. I am trying to be healthier and although there were two accidental times I consumed animal products (fish sourced dha's in some juice, albumin in candy I tasted), I am committed to being a strict vegetarian again.

It's been a great week and month and a blessing

Changing Time

I haven't been the best this week with my family. I have had arguments with family members, dealt with things breaking, and a few other frustrations. My son is sick since Thursday and attitudes have improved. In all my meanness, the Lord still was looking after me.

I scheduled a meeting for Friday at 1pm.  Also had another meeting scheduled in another part of the state at 11am. I typically tend to run a little over an hour, but for some reason my client left the area and I had to wait with the other invitees longer than expected. I started the meeting without her after three others didn't shoe and one half hour in. The five other ladies present stayed with me and it ended up being over 2.5 hours.

Now before I started out for the first meeting, I stopped in the office to send out an email reminder to the second specialist that I would be on my way for the scheduled time at 1pm. During the wait for my first meeting, she responded saying in a rude curt manner that our appointment was for 1:30pm. I was annoyed of course but emailed her over my phone agreeing to the time.

If it was not 1:30pm, I would have been late and with the first major snow storm of the year, the specialist would have been gone sooner, not willing to make herself available to discuss the progress of my other client. It's also the end of the month and I'm booked up so I cannot afford to make any changes. God knows the ending from the beginning. I thank Him for permitting this change and for safe travels home.

I am thankful for a flexible job. I do not have to work on the weekends and have the option of working from home with a remote access system if the office is closed Monday.

I took my son to his first day of Pre-school on Tuesday and welcomed him home his first day on the school bus. I never thought I'd see anything like this and it's wonderful to behold. He is well ahead in academics, from his grasp of the alphabet and reading several words, writing his numbers and letters, handle of technology  (he deftly locates apps, types in what he is looking for on YouTube, and showed me other functions on that old Samsung S3 that I never knew were available). He can even draw faces, sing songs, know Spanish, Hindi, and other languages  (that youtube I know...) and he just turned three last week.

Three years old!

God is good.

A Birthday and a Future

If someone asked me what I would be doing or where I would be today three years ago, I probably would have given a sad hopeless response. Even though I still don't know where I'm headed, I see that the Lord's hand is still upon my life and the lives of my family members.

My son is celebrating his birthday today. He will start school on Tuesday and I am on vacation from 1-15 to 1-19, and able to drive him for his first day. I never thought my son would be where he is in his development. He has pleasantly  exceeded what I expected and I am thankful to the Lord on this beautiful Sabbath day that he is with me and thriving.

God can turn any and everything around. Three years ago, a little more than 3, I went through such turmoil. I can look back on these three years and smile because the Lord brought us through it.

This is my testimony for today.

God in Business

It's another great day and Sabbath. I have been giving attention to my resolutions for this year and happy to have made the changes I did. I know that what I am doing is making me all the more healthier, less frustrated, and more productive in different areas of my life.

I started a new Bible plan today and it's about business. God is someone who wants to see His children doing well. There are times when we are blessed with gifts that we never lift a finger for and there are those that God gives because He sees our heart, effort, and faith in Him.

God knows our needs and desires and if we invite Him into our business and follow His principles, He can bless us at work. I want to honor God by being honest and thorough with my work on the job. It is definitely a change from the work I've completed before and challenging, but I believe God will bless me if I put Him first and continue to. I haven't always done so and I want this statement to stop this year.

The Lord has been wonderful to me. I have been able to increase my productivity at work, drive these hazardous roads safely, and been protected by nonsense that is always available to get stuck in out on the streets. It has been a great week and I am looking forward to more weeks like this for the remainder of the year. I also want to see God move in my life at work as He has put me in a great position to make a positive difference for my clients and others.

Holy Spirit Looking out for the Small Things

I did forget to mention this testimony for last week. I was at work on the computer doing input. The agency designed a system that I must use to look at my productivity and I was busy filling in reports for the week. I came to the client I scheduled myself out to see that day and remembered the previous encounter, but went about checking my work in the most unusual way. See, every time I normally would check behind myself, I would go directly to the service note in the larger system. For smaller nuances, I'd go to the actual sheet I used or review the Outlook calendar. The agency has us on a week and two week schedule to complete and submit our reports and this schedule works in tandem with the supervisors schedules to provide an almost one month buffer to make corrections before billing is set to hit.  I went in to a different view to look for something and realized with horror, I didn't complete the task. I was almost a month out and my supervisor didn't catch it either.

I went in immediately and completed the report as I had all the other information available to reference.

If it had not been for the Holy Spirit guiding me to check in a method I have never used before or thought of, I would have never caught my error.

I asked my supervisor to run a report check of my client input and she came back 5 minutes later with a clean report. I really do have a great supervisor. I think about my job and how my sister talked about hers, being placed next to an enemy she didn't want to sit to. She feels she has no choices and although she carries some heavy educational clout, she is afraid to speak up for herself as she imagines others did and we're fired.

I am sitting in the most ideal spot, stay free from drama, and already had a nice conversation with the boss under the CEO about similar situations where people are bullying and forming cliques. I beat the entire office to the building some mornings and I can go to the ceo's office to get candy if I want. I am blessed to be in the place I am. I don't have to be afraid to speak my mind with the fear of getting fired. And I'm salaried with paid holidays and other benefits so I definitely cannot complain.

I am thankful for the Holy Spirit helping and guiding me on that job in many different ways. From helping me arrive at my destination when there seems no way, leading me down a new path keeping me safe, helping me make wiser decisions and for the Lord doing things I couldn't imagine I'd need let alone ask for at the right times making my life easier and problem free. Of course He'll allow me to go through problems, but He will be glorified in the process and will lift me up to where I can even now rejoice and declare what He has brought me through.

Noone can make you a better person but Jesus. No one can save as He can. May you go with Jesus every day and listen to the Holy Spirit. Then there would be no reason to worry or fear today or tomorrow.

God bless you.

A New Year

Isaiah 43:19 (KJV)
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Happy New Year!

I  am thankful for a wonderful 2015.
I was blessed to earn my master's degree, start at a new job, watch my son learn and and continue to blossom into an amazing person, and pay my long standing credit card debt off completely. I have visited wonderful places and have been kept safe from harm and injury.

I have a long list of things I want to do this year. For one, I have decided to restart my vegetarian lifestyle and hope to stick with it. I used to be a strict vegetarian for 4 years and Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and random asian/general produce markets kept me going. I saw a video from a YouTube I used to be subscribed to and was inspired to go on a shopping spree yesterday at Traders. I am more determined to make this work and I know I can. I want to be healthier.

I want to put real effort into acquiring new skills. I want that other language, singing style, and lsw under my belt.

This year is going to be a good year.