Spring is almost here with all it's newness of life and promise of better days.
We just suffered a major snowstorm. Downed trees, people without power for days. It was a woozy.
Yes, I am ready for spring.
Last week, I think, was the darkest week I've experienced so far - even worst than that last, crazy post from 2/2/18. I was without any hope. Despondent, irritated, angry, frustrated and just feeling so trapped by life and my present circumstances.
The hopefulness associated with spring was no where to be found. I just wanted a way of escape.
In the midst of this depression, a Joseph Prince devotion reminded me that it is good to give God the praise in all circumstances, even when it seems He is not working on your behalf. He is. It may feel so much like He isn't. But He is.
He will never leave me or forsake me. He understands. I have to trust Him.
Reading those words of encouragement helped a lot. My sister in Christ Tena prayed for me, too, after I sent her this rant of a text message about how awful my life is right now.
Sister Sue Evans gifted me with tickets to see Mercy Me yesterday. And the youth group was also going and seeing it from Infiniti suite seats at Prudential Center. So, her brother-in-law, who leads the youth ministry and Jonathan's Royal Rangers, Jeff Evans, got us tickets in the same suite. And oh was it sweet! AND the show was fantastic.
This too helped to move me closer to the light and hopefulness of spring.
I'm feeling like a leaf is turning. Finally - FINALLY - Ms. Smith provided her recommendation for Jonathan's application to Princeton Academy. We will hear by Wednesday if he has been accepted.
He is accepted.
Jonathan stood on the kitchen table tonight and called out to God to lift him up and I believe our Father heard that prayer and I agreed with Jonathan, so where two or three agree, He hears and He acts.
Jonathan is a student at Princeton Academy.
Jonathan shall be a graduate of Princeton Academy.
Oh, and I also got a job.
It's a scheduling assistant position - though I think I'm gonna change it to scheduling coordinator - at a new law firm, Davis & Brusca, LLC. We are in Lawrence Township and eventually Hamilton and hopefully, permanently in Pennington.
Two primary attorneys, an associate, a paralegal, a legal secretary and myself. They're a cool group of peeps. I enjoy working with them.
I interviewed in Dec for the gig and thought I might get it then. I liked the flexible hours and the girls I interviewed with. But they gave it to another gal who lived closer with more experience.
She didn't last a month. Said she was overwhelmed.
After my first week, I totally understood and was about to quit myself. However, I felt a quickening by the Holy Spirit to stay. To see it out for at least 6 months to a year.
I'm now in my 4th week, and it gets better and better with each week. It's a complicated job. I have to email, be on phones (which I don't like), write deposition notices, schedule deps, mediations, client meetings, confirm all this stuff, reschedule most of it. I'm busy the whole time I'm there.
I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm making a difference. Making it easier for the team.
So, I'm sticking with it and we'll see in a year. I hope I get a nice bonus at years end:-).
The commute. Bearable cause I make my own hours. Probably will be about 27 a week. I can get my runs in before I go.
Once Jonathan is in Princeton Academy, it will be the same, if we can move to Montgomery, like I'm hoping.
And there's the other news. There are vacancies in the low income apartments that we originally planned to move to in 2016. I'm gonna apply again.
Walking distance away is a retirement community where my mother can be in assisted living/memory care and my father in long-term care - and they accept Medicare. And it's beautiful.
Not sure they want Black folks. However, I serve a mighty God. He'll get us over that hump.
So, I'm believing and decreeing that we'll be living in Montgomery before fall 2018. That my mom will be at Stonebridge. That they'll help us sell the home and the items my parents own they no longer need and that in due time my father will also join my mom at Stonebridge.
Finally, the big big news: Parker McCarrick plans to take my dad's wheelchair. He'll be using a walker! Praise God!! This is an answer to prayer. I knew he would eventually not need that chair - not sure he really needed it after leaving Kessler, but I'm not gonna worry bout that. I just know that God is moving and answering prayers. So yes - YES - Spring is in the air and...
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP!!!
