Tuesday

So in an effort to continue blogging I'm writing to you this afternoon from Runnings Fleet and Farm supply store in Windom, MN.  I am on my lunch break of course.  You can't have a laptop and blog from the cash register while you are working, at least not yet anyway!

I started Runnings about two weeks ago, so I actually had three jobs with Hy-Vee and Country-Pride also.  I have chosen to continue working at both places, so I will still have three jobs.  Runnings will be FT, Country-Pride and Hy-Vee PT, however Hy-Vee will be like as-needed.  I'm not on the schedule there.  Country-Pride has agreed to work with me and schedule me around my hours here, which is really nice, I'm glad they were so flexible because I kinda wanted to keep a part-time job with the FT one.  I'm kinda behind on some bills so any kind of extra money helps!

This past week though has been a challenge.  Starting last Friday I have been working like 13 - 14 hour days between all the jobs.  So right now I am on day 5 and have one more day left of these hours.  Thursday I work 8-4 and Friday 8am-2pm, then I have all day Saturday and all day Sunday off!  I'm excited about that!

My boys come this weekend too so it will be extra super special to have the entire time to spend with them!!!!!  Something I have not been able to do in a very long long time!!!!  Saturday we have plans to go up to the cities and spend some time with some friends from Waldorf and their families.  Way excited about that too!!!!

I'll have to blog another time about my Waldorf weekend a few weekends ago.  It was our 20-year reunion and I had so much fun.  Waldorf is such a special place!

But I should get going as lunch break is almost done.

ttyl

Letting Go!

It's been forever, once again, since my last entry.  Even though they may be short I need to still blog.  I really enjoy blogging.

So recently I found myself stewing over something I have no control over.  And tonight while surfing the tv channels I got my answer from God on what I needed to do with it.

I came across Joel Osteen's program and his message was about letting go.  Here is part of his message:

This is the information from This Week’s Message page about today’s broadcast titled The Power of Letting Go by Joel Osteen:

We all go through disappointments, setbacks and things we don’t understand. Maybe you prayed for a loved one, but they didn’t get well. Or maybe you worked hard for a promotion, but you didn’t get it. You stood in faith for a relationship, but it didn’t work out. One of the best things you can do is release it and let it go. If you go around dwelling on it, wondering why this didn’t work out, why my loved one didn’t get healed, why I didn’t get that promotion, all that’s going to do is lead to bitterness, resentment and self-pity. Before long you’ll be blaming others, yourself, and maybe even God. You may not have understood it. It may not have been fair. But when you release it, it’s an act of your faith. You’re saying, “God, I trust You; I know You’re in control. And even though it didn’t work out my way, You said that all things are going to work together for my good. So I believe You still have something good in my future.”

Proverbs 20:24 says, “Since the Lord is directing our steps, why do we try to figure out everything that happens along the way?” God has you in the palm of His hand. He is directing you every step of the way. That disappointment may not have been fair, but it’s all a part of your divine destiny. If you will let it go and move forward, then you’re going to come into something awesome that God is about to do; not ordinary like you had planned, but extraordinary like God has planned.

So I have given my frustrations to God and am letting them go!!!!  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding!