Throughout life most people seem to move around at least a little. I have now made my journey from Phoenix to Chicago with a 3 year pit stop in Anderson, IN. The growth and development of who I am since beginning this adventure has been something I couldn't imagine happening in any other context. After completing the race to graduate within the 4 year expected time limit, the welcome party to adulthood and the real world includes termination of your health coverage and the invitation to drive around dropping of a snapshot of your history while not having the dollars to pay for it.
For me, this included a range of locations. Returning to the world of personal insurance and restaurants of high school has been one of humility. Submitting resume after resume with the most common response of, "we are not hiring" is an experience that quickly takes a tole. The spirit of your Starbucks Grande Mocha that morning becomes the autumn leaves you find in your trunk in March; sad, dead, and crushed. I then began venturing into the virtual world of online applications and personality exams with no response to say your answer to "would you stay after hours or ask a coworker for help?" says you can't make coffee.
Luckily, the tone of this search turned around. It went from the minor keys of rejection to the major keys of the juggling act of multiple offers. Now you have a different challenge, how to not say no while not saying yes long enough to hear from your preferred job. I was stressed. I was the egg on the hood of a car in Phoenix in July with the dust shower of a haboob about to cover the sun. Then it all was done for me. God made the decisions for me. God made options I didn't even think of. God heard me. God removed the dust from the sky, made it spring outside, and turned the egg in to a dancing spring flower.
No, the hunt is not completely over. But I am secure in God and have seen more and more of Gods provision.
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