Keep praying! It is amazing how our prayers are answered. Two years ago, I was about to lose my job. 6 months searching and nothing. Suddenly, I got a call for an offer. It was someone whom I had sent a resume a some time before. What amazed me is that she said: 'I don't really know why I called you, I only have you in my mind'. I knew my prayers had been answered!
Just got the letter of refusal in the post. Funny thing is, as I was getting ready the morning of the interview I said to myself "Why go through with this?, I'm not going to get this job". It wasn't a self-defeatist attitude, but borne out of the reality of countless failed attempts at selling myself at interview time. I've asked the Lord to give me a sign to tell me that paid work is out of bounds for me, that I'm to continue in unemployment. If He does this, then I won't have the torment of applying for work knowing I'm going to fail. I'll be content with that, just to know...
Sometimes I think part of the cross is trying to do Gods will, and being unsure as to what it is He wants of us. Maybe you shouldn't try so hard to sell yourself and just put it in Gods hands and just accept the outcome as His will. I know I worry a lot lately if I am doing what He wants from me,..but then I remember Padre Pio tells us to pray, hope, and don't worry.
Grimi, things got so bad in my efforts to find a job that I actually stopped practicing religion at all. I stopped praying, stopped going to Mass stopped everything, though I could never stop fasting and abstaining on Ash Wednesdays and Good Fridays for some reason. I figured that He hadn't bothered to help me after so many, many prayers so I was going to ignore Him. My childhood was difficult and I was put in the care of relatives who didn't really want me and showed it which resulted in some problems that persist to this day and then when I returned to my parents, they just argued all the time and my unhappiness increased. I longed to be 'grown up' and promised myself that I would be happy then. Of course, I faced all sorts of difficulties related to my background and insecurities and believed that I had suffered enough in my early life. I finally found myself, at your age, losing a good, well paid job and trying to find another. I never did and I came to dread filling out the applications and being interviewed. Eventually I just tried to avoid applying for anything excusing myself by persuading myself that the job wasn't good enough or was to good for me. In retrospect, I see that this was real suffering and should have been offered up for my own sins and those of my family. I have done so retrospectively but believe that the offering would have been much more beneficial if it had been made at the time that I was in pain. I don't know if this helps and I wish that I could sit with your and share your pain. All things end, including this.
grimisocks, I'm praying and I'm thankful for that picture that was posted with you, Miriam, and, oh, my memory is slipping! Anyway, I can picture you as I pray! Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
yvonne, A beautiful testimony to God's generous Love! Thank you! Praise you, Jesus! Safe in the Father's Arms!
you hang in there grimi, and continue to persevere. I went through a lot of rejection before I got my small step in the right direction. I'm sure God's plan for your life includes work, but I know what you mean, as I often asked God that question, for it seemed like He did not want me to work. But, as it says in the Bible, we are to work so therefore I expect work to be a part of God's plan for your life. I'm reading the life of Ann Catherine emmerich now, and she has such a tough time finding a convent to join that she really thought God did not want her to be a nun. But what was pleasing to God at that time was her continued search for a convent despite her rejection and her own growing doubts. You need to be like Job in the article link below, which really resonated with me. The way you give Glory to God right now is to continue to persevere in your search, not give up hope, believe God has a plan for your life, and offer up your sufferings, which right now I know is pretty much every minute of every day. You are being asked to remain faithful with barely any consolations at all and that is very tough. But hang in there grimi...don't even let yourself think that God's plan for your life does not include work for He knows we need to support ourselves and our families and our God is a God of providence...although I admit He seems to be a God of just-in-time and just-barely-enough providence which does drive me nuts but it is providence none the less! When God is Silent http://catholicexchange.com/when-god-is-silent/
I think God intends us all to work unless for some good reason ,say ill health we can't. I even like to see hermits working. But if we can't get work maybe God wants to give us time apart. Prayers going up..at the Feet of Mary.
Hi all. Got some relief work in a homeless hostel in Galway City for the Winter months. Thanks be to God!! It'll help out with Christmas, bills etc. This will also take the bare look off my CV which employers like to see. Thank you all for prayers. I'm also praying for forum members in the same predicament...
