Unlike Napoleon Dynamite, I don't have that skill, nor do I particularly want it.
As I now have to become the bread winner of the home, I am finding skills are a good thing. I have been blessed with the fact that I was able to stay home with my girls for the past 27 1/2 years, being a wife and homemaker for my Prince. But now that my Prince is in the presence of the King of kings, the task of supplying an income is up to me.
Granted, I am not an unintelligent woman, there are things I can do, just not things required by the worlds standards. So, I was thinking how my resume would look.
Please list your skills and years of experience applicable to this job:
wife- 27 1/2 years
homemaker- ( laundry, dishes, general cleaning, basic plumbing, basic carpentry, shopping) 27 1/2 years
chef and baker- 27 1/2 years
decorator- 27 1/2 years
mother- 27 years (I know the calculations look suspicious. June just turned 27, my anniversary in July would have been our 28th year. Just wanted to clarify. Okay, read on)
home school teacher- 13 years
gardener- 27 1/2 years
Sunday school teacher- off and on over 25 years
VBS leader- off and on over 25 years
So, you get my drift. The question now for me is, going to school to get a 'real' skill or not. The answer is, very one sided. Yep, I get to go to school. Ugh! This is not something I look forward to at all. The second question is: to get what skill? I haven't a clue, and when I think of it for too long, I can get very overwhelmed, my stomach gets cold, I feel a heaviness, and I usually end up in tears.
I was reminded today, I have nothing to fear, nothing at all. "The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf...the Lord your God carried you...to show you the way in which you should go." Deuteronomy 1:30-33. Granted, Moses was talking to the children of Israel, about their wilderness experience and being bought into the promise land, but is not the principle of belief and trust the same for us today? Unfortunately, they didn't believe in God's promise, many would not see the land of milk an honey, simply because of unbelief in a good and loving God. They saw the miracles He gave them, from the plaques of Egypt to fire by night and cloud by day. Yet, they choose to send men into the land God told them was theirs to possess. The report was 'it is a good land', but they feared the inhabitants. God said He would fight for them, but they went ahead and did their own thing. The consequences of their disobedience and disbelief was they were chase like bees, and crushed.
God has faithfully, lovingly and with much blessing walk me through this wilderness of grief I am in. I have seen His hand work in ways that have been amazing. What is a job to Him? College? No problem, that is, if I believe my God to continue to be the God His word promises He is.
A trodden path, of richness, goodness and blessing. It truly is one trusting step at a time.
I had to shape 14 years of home-making into a resume last year and I got the job. Granted, the job is as close to homemaking as they come so maybe it wasn't a stretch. Just sayin'. You will be led to the right thing. We all know that.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sis. It is just all a bit daunting for one who has never had to be in the work force. I know the Lord will drop it in my lap at the right time.
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