So, I need a bit of a favor....

Can I first start off by saying that I am so thankful to have made such amazing friends through this crazy thing called blogging.

It is so cool to log on and see such heartfelt comments from people that I didn't even know a few short months ago.

So, in the spirit of new found friendships I have a favor to ask of you.

I need your prayers.

Last May I graduated with my Masters in Education and I began the long journey to finding a job. I went to one job fair which was more like a circus full of education graduates running around for the last piece of bread and left without having much hope.

As the summer went on I had a couple of interviews but nothing that really amounted to much but I knew that God had a plan.

Even as the end of the summer approached and August rolled around I still believed,

God had a plan.

And, since God is so amazingly cool I was blessed to get a job as a para-teacher (co-teacher) in a great school district making a very reasonable amount of money.

I love the kids, love the district, I love EVERYTHING about my job.

Except that it won't be here next year.

The grant that is being used to pay our paychecks is not being renewed so as of the middle of May I go back to being unemployed.

Scary.

Here's the thing though.

I still know that God will provide.

I have a couple of interviews lined up for jobs that I'm not even sure that I want.

But God as already provided those interviews.

And tomorrow I am going to a huge education job fair where I will get the chance to actually sit down and interview with multiple districts.

Again, God has provided.

But I'm being selfish.

Because I want to DEMAND from God that I get a job in a district, with benefits, and a good paycheck, and retirement.

I want to plead with him so that I can stop feeling like I am the only thing keeping us from being able to lower the price of our house enough to sell it and move into a bigger home, start a family, etc.

I am selfish.

I really really, REALLY, want a job.

And I have taken a huge step of faith in saying that I will have a job next year.

So, here's the thing.

I need some help! If you could please lift me up in your prayers that God would come through and just totally amaze me and send me a job in a district somewhere, that would be amazing!

I never really ask for prayers for myself but I would soooo appreciate it.

I know that God is good.

And I know that God is great.

And I KNOW that God will provide.

I just wish it would happen sooner rather than later.

The anxiety is about to kill me.

14 Days of Love Day 13: The perfect one...

While searching for my husbands valentines present I stumbled across the most perfect card I have ever seen.

I got it at our local Family Christian Bookstore and it must have been good because when Landen finished reading it he looked at me and said "I like that a lot!"

I know a card seems like a lame excuse for a gift but when you read it I think you'll understand why I decided to use it as my 13th day of love gift.

Now, my only problem is finding a card I like as much to give him tomorrow!

Now on to something else non-Valentine related.

God has really been convicting me to trust Him lately with some areas of my life that are scary and out-of-my control. Which is not the perfect scenario for a control-freak like myself.

Anyway...

I am about to step out on a leap of faith spiritually. I am about to do a crazy, no-sense whatsoever, Abraham and Isaac, David and Goliath, leap of faith type thing.

I am going to test God and His faithfullness.

I'm not going to go into much detail here, i know, I'm sorry!

But at some point I will open up and let you know what's going on. Let's just say, I hope that my conviction in this area is from God because if not, I'm going to look like some kind of fool.

For real.

So I am enlisting you as prayer warriors in this. Pray that God will answer my test and show up and amaze everyone around us. I have faith in my God. I know that He is in control of everything. I am surrounded by people however who do not feel this way, who are living in fear and uncertainty about what the future holds. My hope, is that my leap of faith will show them how great a God we serve.

Thank you in advance for being willing to covet this in prayer. I am faithful that God will provide.

After all, He has already provided so much!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's day tomorrow!

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