Serve Me Up A Piece of Humble Pie

Oh unemployment! We had a good time while it lasted, didn't we? I miss you!


Oh SouthCare! We had a good time while it lasted, didn't we? All the sitting around, eating, and gossiping, practically stealing my rate of pay! I miss you!

Oh new job! I swear I will appreciate you while you are here, but my muscles hurt like they did when I danced six hours a day, and my nasal passages are dry from all the dust, and I swear I will probably start talking to my cleaning supplies after awhile from all the time I spend alone.

So folks, remember when I said "Sh** happens!" and how it would probably happen at my new job? Well, it did NOT take very long for it to happen when on the second day I was criticized by another cleaner for doing a poor job and almost lost the job! I know this is terribly oversaid, but I will say it anyway...Be careful what you pray for!!! Having prayed for humility and freedom from people-pleasing, the Lord allowed a pride-killing circumstance deal with both these issues.

I am okay. I am okay. I still have a job, and it wasn't that I wasn't working hard. I just wasn't using the right cleaning "technique." Did you know there are techniques for cleaning? Well there are. And despite the negative feedback and bursting into tears on the phone with my new boss on the SECOND day, I have had all the rest of my customers approve of my work and even want me back. So it's all good.

But I have learned a valuable lesson. That what other people say and do may hurt, but it doesn't mean a hill of beans compared to what God thinks of me, and how I am accepted and loved by Him. Oh how He wants me to be rooted in that. Thank you, Lord for showing me how I need to nestle myself in the shadow of your wings.

So tomorrow I have my first day at my new counseling internship. I've decided not to pray anything profound for myself cause I am just so afraid he will answer it:-)