Making a Novel Possibility a Short Story....

I feel as though so much has happened in the past three weeks this should almost warrant two separate posts. However, I will do my best to blend it all together for you to be caught up!

Many of you are my Facebook friends as well so you have pictures to kind of tell you the highlights, having gone home to California for a week for Halloween parties, late birthday celebrations, a time to enjoy friends and family, as well as the necessary tasks of doctor visits. I am so committed to my doctors-- partly because I dislike doctors in general so my going willingly without nervousness is a big deal.  Being home was great and a reminder that my true home is with Jesus. Being in my old house for a week I felt somewhat detached. Somehow it felt I was gone a lot longer and that it was no longer my home, even though it was familiar. I think God likes getting us to places where we are not comfortable to remind us that complacency is not what He wants for our lives. I came back to NY with a cold and have been trying to fight it, shake it, and all that ever since and it won't let up. Seems kinda stagnant. Hopefully this week it will start getting better as I continue to stay close to home when I am not working.

Coming back to NY, which is currently home, feels so familiar now that I have a routine of working, church, community group... and just being busy. What New Yorkers are known for.

This week I received an email from a recruiter who saw my resume on a job website, and I am pretty sure it is kinda outdated. Anyway, I am always into entertaining these ideas because you never know when an opportunity will come along. And it was very intriguing. Right after that I got another opportunity to apply for another position. The first position is working for Samsung as a support to the retailers who sell the product to make sure they have the support, training, and incentives needed to drive sales of the Samsung products. I would be in charge of 50 stores in a territory that I would go to and build those relationships with and check in with to make sure that I am visiting those stores and offering trainings on products and answering questions and being the overall contact person for that store with product concerns. It is definitely a huge pay increase and offers the same benefits I have now. The kicker: it brings me back to the central coast. So not sure what God is thinking, but I am sure he is amused. They are also considering me for the same position in the San Fernando Valley, but I am their number one candidate considered for the Central Coast region (Oxnard to Paso Robles and then Bakersfield). This week a lot happens with that so we shall see what happens.

Another position is for an Event Coordinator position with various spots open with a big firm both here in NY and the other in LA and San Francisco. This opportunity would allow for me to use my undergrad degree, just not sure if that is still what I want to know. I have somehow become the "expert" in a wireless industry that is never going to go away but only continue to evolve, and so there is some job security that goes along with that.

I am not sure what the future hold, and God has always had me on a need to know basis. I just know I have to trust in Him for discernment to make the right choices and be lead by the doors He opens and pushed by the doors He closes.

Prayer this week:
* Direction and discernment that He would make the right choices clear and that in the end it all works out.
*A friend of mine is studying to complete his CPA exam. Prayers for time management and motivation a he only has a couple weeks left. And then direction for jobs and where to go.
*One of my current roommates has been struggling with various health issues, so prayers for her to heal and for doctors to have the discernment to move forward in getting her healed.
*A friend who has been having back pain the past month or so pretty bad. Prayers for relief and comfort and for doctors to also have discernment in finding a real solution.
*Prayers for a dear friend who's kitty passed away suddenly last week. He was a real member of her family and prayers for comfort as she had the kitty for over 11 years.
*My other roommate is seeking job direction. Prayers for clarity.
*Prayers for friends who's home is back in escrow again, as they await for it to close so that they can start looking for a new home in their new area. Prayers for adjustments for their kids. Prayers for no hidden skeletons this time in the escrow process.

It seems as though so many are so unsure about things and where God is leading them and then there are those who are sick. As we enter the holidays is only seems the lists get longer. I pray this year the list shrinks and the Praises list gets longer.