The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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[2Jedismom]

I'll say.

:-)

It sounds like it went just fine!

[2Jedismom]

Heh heh...

[RosieCotton]

And now ya know! ;-) Sorry about all the technical stuff...it's just on my mind right now 'cause I'm second guessing all my answers!

I sooo want this...not to mention I really need a job - any job. I can use all the prayers I can get!

[RosieCotton]

I hate waiting. I really didn't like hearing this was just a step along the way. *bites nails*

[HairOfTheDog]

Sounds like a tough day. I always have a couple cringe moments on the way home where I wish I'd have said something differently... or not said so much, or have said something I didn't.

I hope for the best!

[HairOfTheDog]

...it's just on my mind right now 'cause I'm second guessing all my answers!

So is everyone else. I bet they were no more prepared for that than you were.

[TalonDJ]

Sounds like you probably did fine. I hate tests like that. Unless you have a textbook to answer then it is so much up to grader discretion. In this case since it will probably be looked at by people that think the same way as you I bet you will have no problem. Even a vague answer will show if you know the stuff as long as the grader knows the stuff too.

[TalonDJ]

Right! Since that is not the kinda thing you can cram for everyone was in the same boat.

[g'nad]

Ya know, I'm pretty sure there is something in some "book" somewhere about worry...now...where could that be? :-)

When I get that whole worry thing mastered, I'll let ya know. You can only trust that God has his hand on it all and that He loves you. Maybe He's working on your level of trust. He did that to me just before we moved here...it wasn't fun.

Gosh, none of that sounds the way it should...it's supposed to encourage you and bring you peace. If it doesn't and you don't, please disregard. :-)

Send them a nice thank-you note and we'll continue to pray.

Mrsnad

[Peanut Gallery]

Here's for another phone call!

[JenB]

Yeah... that book you mentioned, mrsnad... isn't there something about sparrows and lilies in that?

Of course it's awfully hard to keep on having faith, so maybe we need to pray you have peace. As well as get the job at the end.

[2Jedismom]

I'm off! Steve is gonna be home in a bit. See you later.

[JenB]

Go buy the washer and stop wondering where it came from, ok?

[g'nad]

Yea, that's the book...the one about the sparrows and lilies...you've read that too huh. I've heard that the closer you get to Him, the easier it is to have faith and peace...

Prayers for all of the above.

Mrsnad

[JenB]

Yeah, once or twice. Would rather like to meet the Author someday. Sure gives me peace sometimes. Faith's harder, I want what I want when I want it.

[RosieCotton]

I almost felt ready for scary interview questions. I was totally unprepared for what actually happened. Really thinking about it, I'm actually more worried about the second part - the meeting-real-people part - than I am about the test. Yeah, I gave some vague answers, but I at least tried to indicate some experience, and they should understand that.

I just hope they got some sense of how much I want to work there and why. I wish I was better at joking around or just being personable.

[RosieCotton]

When I get that whole worry thing mastered, I'll let ya know. You can only trust that God has his hand on it all and that He loves you. Maybe He's working on your level of trust. He did that to me just before we moved here...it wasn't fun.

Well...that's what I thought a month ago. Now I'm beginning to think I messed up somewhere along the line, and if I wasn't so lazy / disorganized / something, I wouldn't still be unemployed. It's five months now.

[TalonDJ]

But if it's from my parents, I don't want them sitting around patting themselves on the back for how good they are to me.

Whoever sent it clearly did not want to be known. Hence it was a gift with no strings attached. I would say take it in the spirit it was given.

I know it was extremely difficult to let go of REAL grievances as the humans we are. I saw that in my mom at my dads funeral. He had done her great wrong in the past and she could not really let it go. As someone who looks up to my mom it tore me up to see that side of her. I know that almost no one can be so saintly to give things up that way but the passage of Jesus sending out the 12 sticks in my head. He said what we hold bound on earth will be held bound. As impossible as it is there are things we have to let go. Even when we have amazingly good reasons to not let go. He let go our sins despite far better reasons.

I am sorry for preaching. This topic was something that that lay very heavy on my heard after my grandfathers funeral and I felt compelled to pass it along. My point is this. If the sender took such steps to attach no strings to the gift the take it free of your own internal strings.

[HairOfTheDog]

Would it make you feel better to know that I was out of work for over a year between jobs... and ecurbh just was too :~D

You got lucky the last time you got a job right away.

You don't feel better now do ya? ;~D

[RosieCotton]

You don't feel better now do ya?

In a way, I guess! Though it's mean of me to say so.

I'm really struggling with my pride lately. I mean...I haven't written to some people back home in awhile because they don't understand how I could not have found something...anything by now. And I think about what the guys at the office are likely saying if anyone calls about references now, this late in the game.

Even the girl who's probably my closest friend...I hardly ever sign onto AIM anymore because she doesn't understand how I could really be trying to find a job and not finding one right off, and keeps asking me what's the big deal, though not in so many words. And I'm well aware that if I had a more forceful personality, I might.

I haven't even been able to get a retail, five something an hour job.