Today I met with Kristin's cousin Cheryl about my resume. She gave me some really good advice for cleaning up and tuning up the resume as well as some great advice about interview techniques.
Kristin was subbing today, so I had Kenna with me. While at lunch with Cheryl, she was busy charming the OU Softball team that had stopped in for lunch. After lunch, I caught a glimpse of her in the rearview mirror, sticking her tongue out. When I asked what she was doing, she said- very matter of factly, "Trying to touch my nose with my tongue." Its moments like these that I love about unemployment.
When we got home, I checked the mail. Inside the box was a letter from a name I didn't know. Inside was a note from a friend who is out of country right now. Now, I've not seen this friend face-to-face in over four years, but we have kept in touch via Facebook and email. He said he'd intended to send this sooner, but that he hoped it could help us out. Enclosed was a check with an amount that floored me. To some it would seem nothing, but to me it represented hope. It was more than money, it was groceries, it was utilities, it was gas, it was...time. I am so very thankful for this friend's generosity and compassion. I don't know if he'll ever know how much.
This, and something Cheryl said at lunch got me thinking. She told me that applying to A&M, I needed to be willing to make a full time job there my priority. The problem is, I can't. Any job I take is simply to pay for my church work. It is a means to an end. It's a bonus if it pays well and has benefits. Never again will I take a job I can't stand, but it must be tertiary to my family and my church. So, I began to think about getting through the summer. I looked at the final paycheck from the firm, covering about two months pay, and at savings, covering one month, and the gift, and the other funds we know are coming. If we budget right, and live cheaply, and find a relatively cheap insurance option and I find a part-time job, then we can stretch until Kristin gets a teaching job for the fall. If we learn she doesn't get one- most likely this will be by early summer-ish- then it is full on search for full-time job. But if not, why start a job I don't intend to finish?
We're still praying over this, and studying the option, but right now, we have a peace about this. We still would love prayers for this season of our lives.
But as I told someone today- its easy to talk about trusting God, until you have to trust God. Right now, faith in God is our only hope- and it is a good one.
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