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sweetlybroken
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Posted:09/22/2006 7:10 AM |
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Hi,
Some of you may have read an earlier post I had "Very Difficult Work Environment". Well, it got worst and I quit. My boss, the owner, went out with the painter one night, got drunk and assaulted another man. This attack sent the man to the hospital and my ex-boss is facing an indictment for felony assault charges. I was witness to the deputies interview with my ex-boss. This situation made the last two weeks I was there almost unbearable but I tried to stick it out and thought if he did go to jail I would continue running the shop and perhaps it would be an improvement to the situation. The last day I was at the body shop, my ex-boss brought 2 strippers to the shop and was partying and drinking with them and the painter at 11:00 in the morning. I went home that Friday night and told my husband I wasn't going back. My husband wasn't too thrilled with my decision because we had no other way to pay our bills other than the few sign & lettering jobs we were getting through our own business. After the service on Sunday my husband shocked me by asking if I was going to write a check to the church offering. I asked how much and he told me...another shock. I didn't question him at all because my husband has never been one to suggest giving an offering and especially in that amount so I knew it was God. After we got outside he told me he got a message from God that I was not suppose to go back to the job and we would just do our sign business. I agreed. I want to thank God here and now (praise report) because we have received more jobs over the past couple of weeks than ever before. My prayer request is that everyone that reads this will please pray for us to "hear" God's guidance and that we are able to follow and allow God's Will to be done, not ours. You see, we have been able to "stay on top" of the bills but my mom has bought our gas and food for the past 3 weeks which we both are uncomfortable with and she can't keep it up. Also, we have to pay our car payment and mortgage $1500.00 by next Friday or they are both late and we have already been receiving calls. I have been thinking I need to go back to work and have applied at a couple of places with no results. I have always been a person known for "making things happen" but unfortunatley, some of these things have back fired and were obviously not God's Will (i.e. the last body shop I was at). I am so tired of trying to control everything in my life. There was a time, a couple of years ago, that I truely let go and let God and I had such peace and joy in my life and I miss it terribly. Now I have a fear that I will force something to happen instead of letting it happen and will not be following God's leading. We are both so worried about losing our car and the house that it seems like we sleep in shifts. Neither one of us is peaceful at all but fortunately we don't take the situation out on each other. We pray that God will either provide a job for me or bring enough work to our business that we can make it. Please pray for us.
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johncanalesusa
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Posted:09/25/2006 8:31 PM |
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You bring such a joy to my heart. I remember that feeling of letting go and letting God that you talked about. My heart is overwhelmed with joy for you and your husband and what God is doing. Dave said one wednesday night about how God makes room in our lives and that has spoken so much to me. I've decided also to leave my work-place three months ago because it was hindering me from becoming close to God.It's been hard financially but I have grown so much spiritually towards God. It's good to know your struggles/ praises and that someone else has them too. Know that my prayer for you and your husband are for portection over your family... for God to speak clearly to you about what next move you are going to take and for Him to provide for all your needs... and that your relationship with your husband becomes a light for all others to see what good-work God does in His people.
Amen
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