As many times as you have heard it from churches, pastors, friends, or family who pray with you during the hard times and they say this.
Things happen for a reason, and God's timing is perfect.
As many times as I've heard it, the second part is so so so true. So many times that we want things to happen the times we want it to happen and we forget to remember that there is a big picture that we can't see. That there is a reason God's allowed us to go through trials, to go through loss.
Just recently in my life God's used his timing in a way that I didn't see the big picture until now. I was working with Yogurtini for about 10 months on the Plaza when I got an opportunity to be closer to home and get a higher pay, and I took it. Then after being at that Yogurtini in Overland Park, I was fired, let go, after a month. A month, you may be thinking what I was thinking,,, how could God use you in that short period of time. Well He definitely did.
While I was at the Plaza Yogurtini, I had a supervisor I worked with the most, and she was definitely a Christian mentor to me while I was in that work place. We talked often about how God was working in our lives. Even a few times we took time to pray before the store opened. I absolutely appreciated having a supervisor, whose faith was so strong.
Then when I got the opportunity to move to the Overland Park Yogurtini, I took that same mentality that supervisor had for me and I wanted to do the same to the employees I was working with. I learned from one of my co-workers just started going back to church. Then a few days before I got fired, she told me that she went to a friends house and saw a Bible on his table, and she said she smiled really big. Then she took a step of faith and asked him if he went to church and he just so happened to say no, and she asked if he wanted to go with him. Now they are going to church together. The afternoon I got fired I called her, so she wouldn't be surprised when she went to work. Then I got a text from her that night said that she would pray for me. I also got a ton of supportive texts from a few of the other coworkers. Alot of them said I was their favorite shift leader, and one even said that if they[Yogurtini Manager/Owner] don't regreat firing you then they don't deserve you. It was just so encouraging.
Then I was looking for a job, cause I was honestly running low on money and I was crying out to God cause I was gettting so frustrated that no one was calling me back. Then I applied for this one job that fit my personality perfectly. Talking to people about children in poverty, and getting paid for it.
Of course as soon as I get almost out of money and I was doubting God would provide, I get a phone call from the Grassroots Campaign, and they told me that they wanted an interview. I went in for the interview the next day. The interview was one of the best ones I was apart of, cause I was truely being myself. And I got the job!
Now I look back and I know that even though I was at that last job for a month it's ok, cause I got to talk to people about my loving father and about the I Am Second Campaign. It was great, and I can't wait to see how God's going to use me while I am at this new job.
So even if things seem bad, things seem like they can't get better or you just can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, well, don't worry it's there. Just keep your eyes towards God and keep praying and have a willing heart to go and do what his heart wants. He has a plan, and His plan involves you loving others, one way or another, and bringing glory to His name.
