Here's wishing you all a Happy "Niu" Year!
It sounds so ironical, ya? What with so much bad news...but then, life still goes on...It's just a cycle of life...sometimes it's up and sometimes it's down...just let the Sun goes up and then sets, or we have a season of hot weather, and then the season of rain. We need both in order to grow.
It's tough when the economy is so down...however from my experience of finding my 1st job during the economic down-turn, I actually found my faith. When I was down with job rejections straight from the uni, fresh from school without a shred of working experience, I was so depressed that companies reject me because they want someone with not just a degree, but with job experience. I found it real silly!! Of course we fresh grads don't have work experience, so how do we get it if no one wants to employ us? Silly right? It's like a chicken and egg problem...which comes 1st?? Anyway, it's thru my adversity that I turned to God. Life for me had always been smooth sailing till I had to find my own bread and butter. I realised then that my parents sheltered me ALOT. Don't know if it's a good thing or not, but that's another story I'll tell you another time.
I went to daily mass and started to really read the bible. Then I did a terrible thing! I tested my God, and He spoke to me! (Don't try this unless you were as desperate as me then! You know, the bible says you are not to test your God). Different people speak to God in different ways...I guess God chooses to speak to people in various ways according to what they feel comfortable with. For me, it's through the Spoken Word of the bible passage, and my inner stirring of my heart to His words. After that experience of knowing that God is ALWAYS with me no matter what, when I next quitted my job without having another job, I left it all to God and felt assured that He will provide. That's why when we 1st joined ME and had a little gift exchanged and we received a little plague from Ant & Pat with the words, "God will provide and surply..." or something to that effect, that was the time I went on full-time SAHM after 1 year of no pay leave. It was like what I felt when I got married...a step off a cliff into the unknown, and yet, I didn't feel like I was falling, but it felt to me that I landed with a gentle bump into the safety of the Lord's hands. I don't know how to describe this feeling, but it was real.
So for those who are feeling the gloom of the present economic climate, as we are feeling it now, take it as an opportunity to take a "recess" (that what a "recession" means, right?), slow down a little and turn to God...He's always there, it's just that we are too busy to rest in Him.
God Bless you all!!
Love Theresa, Bert & the girls
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