The Lord is faithful… period.
Wow… Ok, so it’s been a while…
First and foremost.. I got a new job. Started April 30th, and the Lord has blessed me… So kiddies… pull up a chair, or your favorite pillow… and get comfy… It’s story time.
So a while ago, the company I was with at the time was starting to fail. They had let go 70 of the 250 or so employees that they had and were telling everyone that they were trying to sell the company. This didn’t bode well… as my team went from 10 to 4 in a matter of months. The load with 10 was already heavy.. we were all siloed with our duties… so then to take on the work of another 1.5 people… That was a bit much… Moral was at a new low… and everything seemed dismal. I felt at the time that the Lord had released me from that job…
One day, some friends of ours were over… he worked out of state doing 3 weeks on and 2 weeks off… working down in Texas for a drilling company… We got to talking one day and I made the joke that they should hire me… he looked at me straight faced and said: “Not unless you know electronics”. His wife, my wife and I almost said in unison that I had an electronics degree. His reaction was “Oh, then let me make a call.”, or something to that effect. So over the next few weeks, things progressed, and I had a verbal that the job was mine, they just had to work out schedules… meanwhile I had a recruitment company call me and tell me about a job downtown doing IT work. My wife convinced me to at least go to the interview because it was always good to have another iron in the fire. So on a Thursday, I went.
It was for a technology company. I met with the hiring manager and two of the engineers and got more information on the job. First, the job was not doing engineering, but architecture. It was a move I had wanted to make for years. Second, I had the best interview I have had in my life. So I went home positive about the experience, but I still felt that I was going to take the Job in Texas.
That next morning, I was in my men’s group and discussing everything with the “guys”. One of them asked me if my wife was in favor of me taking the job in Texas. I said that she was supporting me and my growth and that she can handle it, and that she was good with it. He stopped and said: “That’s fine and all, but is this what she wants?” I sat there staring at him… I never really even asked her if this is what she wants. I mean we had talked about it and she was good with it… but was it her true desire? I stopped everyone and made a call to my wife, while sitting with the other men. I had to know right then.
I flat out asked her if it was what she wanted. She said: “No, but I am 100% behind you in this and we will all support you…” I cut her off mid-sentence. She didn’t want me to do it, but she was being a good and supportive wife. I told her how much I loved her and reassured her that it was ok, not to want me to do this.
We adjourned early from our group… and not knowing what I should do with the extra time I had before work, I ended up heading up to the church and went down to the prayer room. I got on my face and immediately started praying, and waiting for answers… “Lord, I know that I have said that you will put me where you want me, but… is this (The job in Texas) what you want me to do?” I didn’t even have to wait for the Lord to respond. I got a resounding and clear as day “No.” I sat there for a second, trying to make sure I wasn’t going nuts… I said “Seriously?”, and the Lord said “I have plans to grow and prosper you. You can take this job if you want, but you will reap what you sew.” I sat there for a moment. (I tend to do that when God talks to me) and contemplated what that was going to mean. It meant, that my friend, who went out on a limb for me and vouched for me for the Job in Texas had to be informed. That was something that I wasn’t looking forward to.
So I wrote my friend a long letter, thanking him for the opportunity, thanking him for believing in me, and apologizing for leaving him hanging and how much I appreciated him, but I had to follow the Lord on this. It hurt to write, and I fretted about it, but I got the impression that it was the right thing to write. I sent it off that afternoon. So I figured that the Lord would give me the job down town at the technology company.
That following week, I received a call from my recruiter that I did not get the job downtown. I was crushed. I really thought that my interview was awesome and they really liked me, and they did, but I priced out of what they were willing to pay at the time. I believed the Lord, and knew that he would grow and prosper me and I walked in that…. I just didn’t know which way he wanted me to go, so I kept praying and believing.
The Friday before Easter a few weeks later, at 5:30, I get a call from the recruiter again… The hiring manager from the company that I had interviewed with had called them asking if I was still interested in working for them. Duh!
Somehow, either another person quit or whatever… They made another position, and wanted ME for that position… The price wasn’t what I was making at the last place, but it was still more than they had for the position prior.. so the new position paid more in line with what I was asking originally.
The Lord was faithful, because I believed. He was faithful because I put my trust in the Lord.
Now here I am, doing what I wanted to be doing for years, with a company that I love, with a team that I have respect for and who are all above board.
Thank you Lord for this. The Glory is all yours.
~The Ascended Dragon
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I really don’t know what to title this post.
There is so much on my mind lately… first and foremost, I have to say how amazing it is that the Lord has blessed me and how abundantly he has blessed me in the past few weeks. Obedience has it’s perks.
I’m just trying to be patient with things that are coming down. I have some great news… just not able to share it yet. BLARG!
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Been praying….
I have been praying on something lately… praying pretty hard… I haven’t gotten into the middle of anything.. haven’t fired any shots across anyone’s bow… but today, I was moved to send a text.. with the word “Mercy” to people in my family. I asked them to pray on it….
I have invested my blood, sweat, tears, prayers, time, and a big piece of my heart for almost 6 years… I have cried with, laughed with, journeyed with, held up, been held up by, supported, yelled at, been yelled at.. staggered, farted, lived real life with… for almost 6 years. I don’t think I have ever been closer to another man or woman other than my wife and children… And it honestly hurts me that this has gone away. When I said that she was my second (Plulonic) wife, I never really knew how true that statement was… when I refer to him as my brother… I really took that for granted too… until that was severed… I so desperately want that connection back…
So, I said today what I had to say… My heart is broken… and well… so is my wife’s. I have held my wife, night after night… her crying and hurt… her sister has cut her off…
I won’t get into what went on, because honestly, it’s not important to me. What is important is that there are two families that have so much history.. so much more than most people could fathom… who just were “done”.
My head just hurts, my heart aches, and this is the first time I am just sitting and really letting out how I feel about it. I am not going to confront, I am not going to belittle, I am not going to say “You should or shouldn’t” or point fingers.. because frankly I don’t care… My only advice here is to two people: You need to sit down, and have the heart to heart you two always said you could can have, not over a text or chat or email… but face to face, having an “ugly cry” with no walls, no accusations, no bullshit, no false front, no expectations, and most of all no holding back. Then, AFTER THAT, if you chose to walk away from what we had, then walk away in agreement with a clear conscience.
It’s time to be real again… I don’t do good pretending people I LOVE don’t exist and I don’t do well when people pretend I don’t exist.
~The Ascended Dragon
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Ugh…
So I spent last night, up every 10-15 minutes either coughing or waking up with the baby’s humidifier would fire up. I think each time I woke, I started praying for peace and the Lord’s grace. Then, at 6:30 this morning, I started a coughing fit.. It lasted for at least 10 minutes with subsequent after shocks… Landed me a full blown asthma attack and had me in the Dr’s office at first available. I walked in and they were trying to get me into a wheel chair… I must have looked pretty bad.
They got me into a room, gave me a breathing treatment and took chest X-rays. They were worried it was pneumonia. Thank the Lord it wasn’t. After a while I hobbled out and have a nice big ol’ batch of bronchitis. So I am sitting downstairs, creating documentation for work, trying not to hack up a lung again… Have some new meds… but they aren’t really handling the cough…
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Wrapping my head around it…
I spent the past few hours wondering what the f#%@ just happened. Apparently, being a dude, I just don’t “get” it and why it was run so far up the flagpole. I’m just praying for God’s grace here and for the Lord to calm this storm… Cuz’ Wow….
I’m going to bed… I hope the Lord sorts this out in my dreams… because my conscious mind doesn’t get it.
~TAS
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Yep, that was this week.
I took this week off from work. I have to say, it was one of the most relaxing weeks off I have had in a while. I spent the time hanging with the wife and the bebe… even delivered meals on wheels with my dad. I had an enjoyable Saturday with the Moose. I can’t tell her that because she will get a big head like I like her or something. Brutal’s telling me things should start to solidify by Thursday. We’ll see how it pans out.
Did have some interesting chat time with the ex-wife with the kids. Wont go into it.
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Awe SNAP!
Sorry for not posting a video blog entry tonight. The camera is down stairs and I don’t feel like hooking it up in the kitchen.
Long story short, between my two families, (mine and Brutal’s) there has been a lot of drama going on. Believe it or not, I see it as the Lord healing many of our wounds. Some wounds in our big, honking, extended family run very deep.. but the Lord is really moving. It’s hurting having to deal with it, but at the end of it is a better day. Through all this though, this past long weekend, I got to hang out with Brutal. He and have not had time like that since BC. I have to say I am even more impressed with him than I used to be. Brutal is really an amazing man. I really felt like we got to reconnect on a whole new level. Maybe I’m looking into it to much, I don’t care.
He was my friend before he went and got all “social” on everyone. 
I don’t know what else to write. I don’t want to talk about work, because this is a public blog and I won’t ever do that about a company I’m currently working for. There are lots of changes happening at the office…. and well… that is about all I will say.
God bless my friends.
~TAD
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