Moving Forward

A new addition and decisions!

It's only been a couple of weeks, but a ton has happened! Where to begin?? Well the most exciting thing is that my sister had her baby this past Monday, April 30. Her name is Alexandria Marie and she is beautiful! She looks a lot like Terry and very much like Kayla did when she was born.



She was born at 12:49pm weighing 6lbs 13oz and she was 19in long. It's been fun already... Kayla (she's 2 1/2) gets to excited everytime Alex makes a sound. She says "that's my baby sister!" So cute.
My parents have been here for a week, so it's been pretty fun having the whole family around. My dad has to leave on tuesday to have surgery so that's kinda a bummer, but mom is staying through next week tuesday.
I'm still not really settled anywhere, but I will be soon. I'm still throwing around the idea of different jobs and such. Last time I wrote about the church that I had the initial interview with, well I got back in contact with the Pastor and we're meeting this tuesday to talk about the job a bit more, but she has already told me that she thinks I'm the one for the job and me getting back in contact was the Lord's confirmation for her. We'll see I suppose. I'm struggling because I had another job interview this past thursday and they offered me a job starting at about $38,000 a year, but the schedule is different from week to week, so the part time job at the church wouldn't really work out.
I'm struggling because everyone around me is telling me to take the retail job that pays well and has awesome benefits, but I know for sure that I'm called to ministry and until I can be quaranteed that I'll have Sundays off, I can't take another job. The church job is paying me by letting me live in the parsonage for free, so I'd have my own 3 bedroom, two bathroom, full kitchen, livingroom, two car garage house, but I still have other bills therefore I need another job. The Walgreens job is familiar and something I know that I could do and do well. I also think that Walgreens would be settling for me... I have a degree that cost a lot of money and technically I could work in the city at a big PR firm and make much more than walgreens will offer me, but that's not what I want.
I just have so many bills and loans and debts to pay off that the smart thing to do would be to take the walgreens job... smart to those people that don't understand what I want in life and what God wants from me... to those that don't understand that I don't need to make a ton of money to be happy. I will be provided for, that has been promised to me. I'm not worried about it, but I am also to be responsible, you know? Arg.
Well enough of that! No need to stress too much. Other than that I'm good. I'm missing some people a whole lot right now, but I'm trying not to be sad because it's an exciting time! God is doing some great things all around me. I am blessed by my friends near and far, so what's better than that? Prayers for my family are welcome... for souls. for the new baby as well!
Thanks friends!

“I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!” Philippians 3:7-11

posted by Moving Forward @ 7:31 PM