My intention for this blog when I asked Josiah for it, was to have a place where I could playfully make up stuff too fantastic for anyone to actually believe, and once realized as jest, would bring delight to the reader. Funny thing is, I assumed my own life was too boring to be blogworthy. And yet, in the past two weeks since my first post, my life has taken a turn for the exciting.
I now have a new job, coordinating the weather-monitoring system at Covenant Transport, which fits perfectly into my class schedule, and a new girlfriend, Debbie, who just happens to be the most incredible woman I've ever met. (Hmm... come to think of it, I should probably stick an exclamation point or two on that sentence.) "...just happens to be the most incredible woman I've ever met!!!!!"
My mom and step-dad spoke to her briefly over the phone, and you have to know she's awesome when it's obvious that she has no fear or hesitation about simply having a phone handed to her, which has upon the other end the parents of her new boyfriend. I'm pretty open about making myself known to new people, but even I'm not sure how well I would have reacted to talking to her parents like that. Hopefully I'll find out soon.
I guess it's pretty clear, God has blessed me immensely since my last post. For those curious about my knife-selling, I just hit my next commission level. But funny enough, I haven't hit my next promotion. I'm at $2999 in sales, meaning that 100% of my next sale will be at the new, higher commission. However, I don't technically get the new title until I'm at $3000. There really aren't supposed to be people who've hit the higher commission without also hitting the promotion, but somehow I found a way, as usual, to be just a little bit weird.
I had finally given in and decided to trust God, having held back in fear and unfaith for far too long. I can actually trace the moment I decided to trust to one single day before the blessings began pouring down:
I was preparing to go to church, and it occurred to me that I hadn't been faithful with the tithe, because I didn't trust God to meet my need, and feared to give up even that tenth of the tiny amount I was making. So I asked myself whether I believed that God was faithful or not (not the first time I have wrestled with the question) and decided that I believed He is. I wrote out a check for what truly was a pitiful amount, and yet was genuinely one tenth of what I had made for the past two weeks. I placed it in the offering plate when it came around and decided that God would be God, and I would have to trust Him to provide for me.
The following day I had a knife demonstration scheduled at the Rogers's house. If you haven't met Jeff and Beth Rogers, let me just tell you that they're a couple of the coolest people around. As it turned out, their son Dave was actually at Vector that same day. In fact, I had even seen him as I left the office and he was arriving. Right at the end of the demo, he walked in, and once we realized we had seen each other, we were both sort of surprised and impressed by the coincidence. I asked him what he'd thought of it, and he told me that it was actually one of two jobs he had interviewed for that day. The other was at Covenant Transport. When he described the job to me, I thought it sounded really cool. He said they had been really impressed with him and that they still had positions available. I called the next day, scheduled an interview that afternoon, was hired the day after, and started my first day of training today. Dave got the job too, on a different shift.
But the real blessing came one week later, yesterday afternoon, when Debbie and I started going out. :D Wow! I know every guy who's just falling in love thinks he's got the greatest girl ever, but I know they're all wrong, because she's with me. ;)