I'll take "God's Plan" for $1000

Isn't that the question we all wish we had the answer to before we figured it out.  Its amazing when you finally get towards the end of His plan when you realize, "Oh that's why I had to do that/go there/say this."  Well God's plan for Geoff and I has definitely been an adventure.  When I think back to January of this year, our lives were completely different, and when I say completely different I mean COMPLETELY different.  We were still going to get married but in a whole different church, by a whole different pastor and move to Eldo where we had a little rental house and both work for the school district.  Well skip to the end of that same month and our world had been turned upside down.  We were no longer getting married in that church or by that pastor, we weren't moving to Eldo, we didn't have our little rental house and we definitely weren't going to be working for the school district.  It was a lowest of low points for both of us.  It was like we had to start from scratch and start fitting the pieces of our lives back together.  Slowly we started to figure things out and had decided that we would be getting married in a new church by a new pastor, we were going to live in Joplin and Geoff had begun to work for CED and I was almost positive I had a job teaching music in CJ.  Then on April 1, 2011 it changed,  again. 

Geoff was approached by CED to enter the management training program, but that would mean moving to Lincoln, NE.  (And no this wasn't an April Fools day joke.)  So after a couple of weeks on consideration we came to visit Lincoln, decided to move, found an apartment and came home.  Skip forward to present day.  We moved to Lincoln because of Geoff's job, which meant I was unemployed or a homemaker as the bank says.  And we moved here knowing no one.  Meaning that when Geoff went off to work I was home, alone, all day.  Although its been fun moving here, it has probably been one of the rougher months of my life.  You can only clean so many times in one day, and unfortunately basset hounds don't hold conversations very well.  I've applied to so many jobs, praying for the right job to come along.  I kept getting turned down by different positions; a jewelry store, chiropractic office, many restaurants, Bed Bath and Beyond, and even Target.  Along with these I applied to so many school districts for anything: subbing, para position, secretaries. Getting turned down and told there were no open positions was frustrating and left me wondering, why am I so marred, what about me says don't hire me? 

We attended a church on Sunday that really spoke to Geoff and I really liked it.  This lead to Geoff going to visit with the Pastor on Tuesday.  We already knew that I had two interviews this week with two schools in the Lincoln Public School system.  I wasn't feeling super confident since I had been turned down by so many different jobs.  Both schools were para positions but I really wanted a General Para Position at Arnold Elementary which was really close to our house.  Geoff and the Pastor ended their visit by specifically praying for this position.  Well, after the interview on Wednesday I got a call that evening offering me that specific job!!! I AM NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED!!! Although its just a para position, it is still allowing me to use my degree and it is an "in" to Lincoln Schools. 

I look back over these past 6 months and how life has changed is beyond just coincidences, it was God.  Geoff and I had put God in a little box.  We were only allowing Him to do so much, only allowing Him to use us this way and blessing us by only a little.  It took a radical shake up in our lives to show us that we had, unknowingly boxed God in.  God is God and can do literally anything He wants.  He is the holder of our future and the maker of our plans, not us.  Although we had to go through a pretty big valley to reach this small peak in our journey, I wouldn't change a thing.  I am so happy we are where we are.  Things are looking up; I have a job, I'm pretty sure we've decided on a church and now I have opportunities to meet friends!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!