Part 2

If you need a recap, on what has happened so far, click here.

So anyway, as I was saying....

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Roughly one hour after I made that call to my friend J., I was driving home from the temp agency that I applied to directly after I, um... lost my job. I thought I should talk to God a bit to tell Him how I'm feeling about this situation. I began to share with Him that I trusted Him in this: that even though I was officially in a major financial bind, that I was trusting Him to provide for me. I told Him that I knew of His promises of a hope and a future for my life, and that I was going to stand on that promise and know that I was going to be okay.


As I prayed that prayer, I recieved a phone call back from J.


J.: "Hey Stephanie! Just thought you might like to know that due to personal circumstances, I need to give away my cleaning jobs. I'm guessing you'll take them?"

Me: "Umm... YEAH!!!"

The rest was details which I don't need to fill you in on. All you need to know is that God provided. Oh but we're just barely touching the tip of the iceberg here.

While I was on the phone with J., my mom beeped in to tell me that her friend and neighbor J. who owns her own cleaning business, was wondering if I'd like to work for her. I could start as early as the very next day.

Me: "Umm... YEAH!!!"

Mom: "Well, here's her number, give her a call tonight and the two of you can iron out the details. I thought you should know that I did a little haggling on your behalf, and she has agreed to pay you the same wage that you were making at your old job."


Me: "Are you kidding me?!? To clean houses?!"


Mom: "You're welcome."


Whatever!!


So now only an hour after I got... umm... let go, I have two new jobs.


Uh, God? You're cool. In case I haven't told you. You are VERY cool.


So I got in touch with Mom's friend J. that night, and we agreed that I would start the very next morning. I called my mom to let her know that I'd be in the neighborhood in the morning, and asked if she'd like it if I stopped by before work for coffee. She was delighted.

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The next day, I was at my mom's by 8:30 which gave us about a half an hour for coffee before I had to head to J's for work. She and my step-dad and I chatted a bit about how absolutely random this all had been, and how cool it was that everything was falling into place.

I made it very clear to the both of them that I had not a shadow of a doubt in my mind that this was totally and completely God, and even though I should probably be sad for myself, I couldn't and didn't want to be: I was too busy praising God!

My mom understood, but my step-dad... well... he humored me: and that was fine. As long as he understood where I was coming from. As long as I got God's point across: that's all I cared about.

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I got back around 3:30, and found my mom in her office playing computer games. I sat down to chat with her again for a bit before I headed home, which is when she dropped the bomb on me.


"Your step-dad and I want to help you out with school. So just... pick where you want to go, audition, do whatever it is that you need to do to get into your program, and then let us know how much it is. We'll do what we can."


*Silence*


Actually, I think crickets started chirping all around us at this point.


And this is what I looked like:
















Well, but a 15 year older version of course.


So anyway: I now have two new jobs (and I'm going to be starting my own little cleaning company very soon), which will allow me to have most of my days free to finish school, AND my parents are going to help me pay my tuition so I'm not in debt up to my eyeballs for the rest of my life!

Can you BELIEVE it?!

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You know, If there was even a smidget of doubt in my mind of what God was capable of doing in my life; or in ANYONE'S life, it was completely wiped out after what I've just recently experienced. God proved that He is capable, and He does work all things for the good of those who love Him:

"28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers" (Romans 8:28-29). (Thanks Luke!)

"...who have been called according to his purpose". I now know, without a shadow of a doubt, that God has me right where He wants me. He has a purpose for my life: and while there may be a number of possibilities in my future in terms of schools, programs, careers, etc., He showed me that everything can change in the blink of an eye solely by His hand. So I know that I'm taken care of: I'm loved, and I'm watched over. But more importantly, so long as I let Him have the wheel...


I'm headed somewhere totally amazing.