Well I do not really know what to say for this one. I really want to share a story but I also feel like after all those stories of my life that I should put some awesome praise reports. Well where to start??? Well each of those stories have a blessing in the end. It just took till now for me to see the whole picture and see what was going to happen. Well I can start with my job!! Well I was working at this one job for about 8 months and I got a nervous breakdown there. The boss' didn't care about his employees and he only seemed to hire his own race. He treated them great and the rest he bossed around and gave them a hard time. Well anyways that's just a little bit of what it was like, it was worse and I was not the only one in this boat. Well one day I just got fed up cuz the boss was giving me a hard time and seemed like he did not trust me etc....and I just snapped, walked off and slammed the bathroom door as hard as I possibly could. I mean the whole entire store must of shook, and the boss was then friendly to me cuz I think he realized that he finally stepped over the line. Well that was the day I snapped and told him I had to go see a doctor. He let me go, and the doc gave me a month and a half off of work. Then my boss told me to resign and then he would hire me back right?? Well I knew I was never going back, and I was getting behind on bills cuz Unemployment was not getting my cheques ready in time. Then my credit card insurance got all messed up as well, which caused more headaches. I should not have had to pay some of the bills cuz I had insurance. Well anyways in the midst of this all I finally got a job 3 months later at a restaurant. I made great friends there. Oh and sorry this all happened way before I met those girls and hung out with them. So I started getting caught up on bills, things were ok right? It was far from over, it was year later things finally started to take shape and work. So in the mean time I am doing ok with bills, but still battling depression cuz things are a huge mess. Parents, finances,no friends and just so much emotional trauma. As I was getting caught up the place started to cut hours. I was only getting 15 hours a week!! I was getting 5 three hour shifts a week. What a joke, so I kept applying for jobs. A year or so later I got a job as a cook at a hotel. It was great cuz I had decent pay, never had to pay for meals, cute girls hahaha,we could goof around, and we always had fun at work just being stupid. As well at the same time we were working. So I was all 11-7pm, full time pulling 530 something dollar cheques!! I got a car, and things were awesome!! Well I started to realize the importance of Christ in my life cuz while working here is when I met the one week girl. So in the midst of this all I realized ok I can no longer do this. I need God, and I started looking around for other jobs. I did get a job washing semi trucks, and I got good pay, dental plan, and every second weekend off! I started to attend this church again, and things seemed great. Did I also tell ya while at the 3 hour shift job I was always always praying for a christian boss??? So at the truck wash I loved it, but still I felt like it wasn't working so great. I wanted to be in church every sunday no matter what. Well my mom had this cooking job. She was just recently hired and she didn't like it too much and she knew what I was looking for. I wanted to cook again, so she handed the job to me. The awesome thing is at the previous job where I got free food(Pancake House) the head boss managed the place my mom worked!!(Michels) So thats how I got in, the one boss knew me and told my mom ok tell Andy to come in tomorrow morning. So I got there, and was happy right? Well sort of, but anyways I was there for a couple weeks and I still wasn't feeling it. I was feeling a little off but figured well God you got me this job and you want me to stick it out, so I am going to do so. A couple weeks later I found out the boss at Michels was a Christian! YAAAAAAAAAAA!! GOD RULES!!!!! I mean it didn't hit me then but now that I think back on it I am totally totally amazed and blown away. It took close to 2 years for the prayer to be answered. Well it was answered but God had to have things happen first. His timing is soooo important and man God is just beyond anything. I can't describe how awesome and amazing he truly is!!! Now I look forward to going to work and hey I may not have full time cheques and may not have cheques like I did at pancake house, but it's worth it. I would not give this job up for anything. I mean the boss is a blessing, she is soooo leniant its not funny. People who should have been fired still work there. People who walked off and never came back till 6 months later were asked if they wanted to work there again! I mean the person was just at Michels to eat and the boss was ready to hire them back despite skipping shifts for 6 months. Thats how much of a blessing the boss is. I mean it really blows me away, and its awewsome!!
our God is an awesome God!!! Andy you are a great writer. and God uses you a lot.
sabina