part 09 - ???
Thank God for His faithfulness that I got a job after a gruelling 8 months of joblessness. Through it all, i've learned these few things which would like to share with the readers:
1. Losing a job is NOT the end of the world, but losing hope is. We had learned over the months that hope is what keep us going in knowing that everything is in God's hands. We know that He's faithful and never will let us alone in the situation. God has been proving Himself real to us in many situation, both good and bad time.
2. We have gone through a period of dryness and we finally understand what's really to be in need. Now we know what is the feeling of desperation for God; The feeling of deep desire for change; The feeling of receiving blessing from friends; The feeling of when someone just came by and encourage us... We had a total change of perspective on our Christian faith; How God has encouraged us; How God provided the food on our table day in and day out.
3. We know the happy ending is the one that people would like to know and enjoy reading. We tend to want to know the positive outcome of the story and fast forward the process of going through in the situation. We WERE in that process last year when we gone through the process of breaking, molding, hope, desperation ... When we look back now, we learned to be contented with the little things in life, we learned to walk step by step with hope and faith, we learned to see beyond our situation and continue to serve and give, we learned to be patient in waiting for great things to come, we learned to trust God in good and bad situation...
4. Losing a job doesn't make you a lesser of a person. You are who you are, it's not what you do
I used to drive by Melbourne Agilent's office occasionally as it's on the way to asean kampung in Melbourne where we'll normally go to get our asean food fix. Every time I drove past it, I just pray and claim in by faith to get back into this company. Some time I just joke with Audrey that, "it's so near but yet so far". But as we look back on what had happened last year, we are glad that we had the opportunity to go thru that and most of all, we experienced God's faithfulness in our life.
Hope this experience has encouraged you in some way :)
Tim
