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New job Jazz

Last week I told y’all I am leaving my current job to start with a new company. Now, I’ll give you some background. It’s all very God-lead, in my opinion, and I’m just standing back amazed as it all unfolds.

I’ve been intermittently keeping an eye on a local hospital for job openings for some fill-in work on weekends for quite some time now and have barely gotten a bite; talk about your ego bruising. Once again, a PRN (fill in position) came open, my friend let me know and so I said to the Hubs, “this is the last time I put in and then I’m done.”. A week later he encouraged me to send the follow-up email to the director, to which I grudgingly did so, lo and flippin’ behold, she emailed me back and followed up with a phone call to set up an interview the following Monday. The interesting part on the phone call was that she was giving me a pretty detailed time-line of interview, decision, orientation, 2 weeks notice, yada, yada, yada. I hung up with an appointment and totally confused as to why on earth I’d need to give notice for a PRN position.

Obviously I went home that night and scoured the website for other openings that maybe I missed. Sure enough, a full-time position at a new facility of the hospital’s was posted. What? Full-time? Not even on my radar. This was going to be interesting. Now I was just curious as to where this could go and IF I would follow through. If it was meant to be….it would.

I had my interview, which felt comfortable and easy and AN HOUR LONG!!! Waited a whole week and finally, FINALLY got the call. They picked ME!!! The Hubs and I had some decisions to make, and I had a feeling that this might be God’s timing and I would be best suited to follow Samuel’s lead and follow along. I also had a deja vu moment from when I bought the house…read HERE and that worked out beyond my wildest dreams, so yes, I was absolutely curious.

And so, in the end, I leave a job that has been very good to me for the last 10 years and step out into a company that can offer me more opportunity for future growth. The craziest thing is that both the Hubs and I are completely and totally at peace with this decision. It will require some schedule shifting and kid-compliance, probably multiple times over the next several months as the center opens and hits its stride, but everyone is on board.

So, change is a comin’ and even though I don’t love change, I’m ready to embrace what the future holds.

As a bonus, I get some catch up time with friends across the state in the interim, so #WINNING!!

Changes. Challenges.

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Door challenge

I absolutely won’t be trying this #doorchallenge anytime soon….my aching back just watching these girls get into this position and then reverse and then again. But they did it. And grammed it. Challenge: complete.

My own challenge comes in form of a new job. Sort of. What? Yup. After a decade with the same company and my degree just sitting on its haunches, I happened into a position with the competition (also a far larger organization). While, the initial position is essentially a lateral move, the potential for growth is better and with a large, well-run organization there are countless other benefits.

I can’t explain it, but there is a tremendous sense of peace in this decision both with myself and with the Hubs. The peace, I am certain, lies in the job itself opening to a Full-time position when I wasn’t even looking. Good friends, old friends, who unknown to me at the time, were background cheerleaders to the powers that be before and after my interview. The timing is quick, with little time to second-guess and drag it out. Basically, knock, open, go in. God is in control. Fully. With no doubt. And I’ve been here before, when He opened the door to our house. Sometimes, those prayers of “Please….God….I am dense and thick and need you to make this clear as day”, really DO get answered. Not always right away, not always the way I think I want them to be answered, but it does happen. And it’s just WOW. Really. Wow.

I mean, I know NO one at this office. It’s brand new, Opening day is September 8. My 7 minute drive and 5 mile world just opened up to about a 30-ish minute commute and a 20-something mile world. What. The. Heck. It’s all good though and clearly I’ll have more time for phone calls and podcasts with additional time in the car.

It will be an interesting year ahead and I’m excited to see what lies ahead. It’s time. And I’m up for the challenge! So, here’s hoping I’m hopping from the fire to the pan and not vice versa!

School situations and changes..

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Homeschool? Private? Suck it up at sucky public school? All options we will be likely weighing over the next few weeks or months. I know, “Do not worry about tomorrow….”. Got it. BUT…..what’s the difference between worry and pre-planning? There is a good chance that due to a house sale our kids will lose the address that keeps them all in schools we have been happy and lucky with. Except for our rising 9th grader who will keep his school due to the academy he is in next year.

So our choices are:

suck it up for the schools we will be zoned for. even though the middle school is NUMBERO UNO on the “Top 25 Incidents” in our area and the ONLY one with gang related activity (reported anyway).
find the funds for private. right. let me run out and check the garden to see if that lettuce is growing some Benjamins.
homeschool. at this level. I don’t even know if I’m capable.

So. Just pray. Chime in if you got some ideas. I’m allllllllllll ears!

Divine Mercy and Pope Saints

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Today we are blessed with 2 new saints to our army of intercessors, friends to pray with us, friends to pray for us and friends who were once Pope. Jenny is hosting a little gathering of memories of Saint Pope John Paull II and there are a ton of great stories, photos and pictures, a great way to remember the man and to celebrate the saint!

My contribution contains no personal photos of up close and in person with JPII and no earth-shattering and profound moments except that when I came back to my faith in the late 90s, early 2000s, John Paul II was Pope, when my world fell apart in 2003, John Paul II was Pope, when we entered our season of separation and survival, John Paul II was Pope, as we ended our first school year in that season, John Paul II passed away. The foundation had been poured and the example of his own mercy, forgiveness and love for humanity penetrated deep into my own heart and has since been lived out in ways that can only be accredited to “By the Grace of God” through the living example of Pope John Paul II. Not only did he pray for mercy for the whole world (see a portion of the Divine Mercy Chaplet below), he sought to bring his whole flock to the faith and love of Christ and he fought hard for the youth, knowing that the young are our future. Perhaps that is the message that sticks with me the greatest. And so today, Divine Mercy Sunday, we welcome 2 new Saints and rejoice in the example of faith in their lives and hopefully go forward sharing our own faith with all we come in contact with, that we may all come to love and trust in the saving power of Christ in His endless Mercy, Compassion and Grace.

Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

I’ve tried to find out a bit more about Saint John XXIII as well and just loved his quotes I found this morning on the Catholic News Service…because we should all find some humor in life (which I often struggle with among the daily “must-dos”)!

1. Visiting a hospital he asked a boy what he wanted to be when he grew up. The boy said either a policeman or a pope. “I would go in for the police if I were you,” the Holy Father said. “Anyone can become a pope, look at me!”

2. “It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about the serious problems afflicting the world and I tell myself, I must talk to the pope about it. Then the next day when I wake up I remember that I am the pope.”

3. In reply to a reporter who asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?”, he reportedly said: “About half of them.”

4. When a cardinal complained that a rise in Vatican salaries meant a particular usher earned as much as the cardinal, the pope remarked: “That usher has 10 children; I hope the cardinal doesn’t.”

5. When he went to visit a friend at the nearby Hospital of the Holy Spirit in the evening, the nun answering the door said: “Holy Father, I’m the mother superior of the Holy Spirit.” He replied: “Lucky you! What a job! I’m just the ‘servant of the servants of God.'”

6. Not long after he was elected pope, Blessed John was walking in the streets of Rome. A woman passed him and said to her friend, “My God, he’s so fat!” Overhearing what she said, he turned around and replied, “Madame, I trust you understand that the papal conclave is not exactly a beauty contest.”

7. He once wrote: “There are three ways to face ruin: women, gambling and farming. My father chose the most boring one.”

8. When he was cardinal and patriarch of Venice, the future pope was talking with a wealthy city resident and told him, “You and I have one thing in common: money. You have a lot and I have nothing at all. The difference is I don’t care about it.”

9. When a journalist asked the then-patriarch of Venice what he would be if he could live his life all over again, the future pope said, “Journalist.” Then he said with a smile, “Now let us see if you have the courage to tell me that, if you could do it all over again, you’d be the patriarch!”

10. A Vatican official told the pope it would be “absolutely impossible” to open the Second Vatican Council by 1963. “Fine, we’ll open it in 1962,” he answered. And he did.

Today as we welcome these Saints we can pray,

“Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII, pray for us and the whole world.”

Happy Anniversary, Papa Francis!!

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Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!