God is amazing!

We are just dumb ol' sheep, but we have a loving shepherd who loves and understands our human nature. Is it just my personality, or does everyone stuggle with waiting on the Lord and understanding His timing? I think as humans we have become increasingly impatient and want things done "our way right away". (Do we all aspire to be burger flippers at Burger King? "Ding! Fries are done! Ding! Fries are done!" Have you heard that parody? So funny!)

Yesterday, God revealed Himself to us in a very real way. Our prayer for the last month has been that God would bring the perfect job to Jason, and that God would not allow any job to accept Jason unless it was God's perfect will. Jason applied for this job on a whim. The company is only a few miles from our house, plus Jason knows fences inside and out and knew he could do the work. There were some concerns discussed before he decided to call them the other day, but we decided to just leave it in God's hands and if He didn't want that job for Jason then it wouldn't work out.

When Jason met with the owner last night, the owner looked at him and said, "I've met you before." He proceeded to tell Jason that when he first started his company 4 years ago, he was "shopping" the competition and requested a fence estimate from Danielle Fence. Who do you think the salesman was that "just so happened" to meet with him? It was Jason! (Okay, that was obvious.) He said that Jason's presentation that day was really impressive, and he could tell that Jason knew what he was talking about.

Later in the interview last night, the owner told Jason the story of what happened the day Jason sent in his resume. When the resume came off of the fax, the guy (who Jason would describe as a sales manager) took it and was walking through the hallway of the office. He met the owner in the hallway and said, "I just got a resume from a guy who used to work at Danielle Fence." The owner asked what his name was, and the other guy said, "Jason Downs." The owner immediately said, "Get him in here now!"

Wow! Isn't it amazing to watch God work? He had that all planned out 4 years ago! During the last 6 months to a year, we've questioned many things, like...why things turned so sour all of a sudden at Danielle Fence and why God led Jason to Sears just to make us feel like we were stranded with no income. The thing is, Jason probably would not have made the decision to move to another fence company while he was at Danielle Fence (for loyalty reasons), and if life had been "peachy keen" while he was working for Sears, he would not have felt the need to look for another job.

After interviewing for 2 hours and 40 minutes last night, the guys told Jason that they would let him know by noon today whether or not they would want to bring him on. Jason felt pretty sure that they would hire him, but we still continued to pray that if it wasn't God's will for him to work there, then we didn't want them to offer it to him.

Today, just a little before noon, Jason got the phone call, and they did offer him the job. Yay! Jason was asked how soon he could start, and Jason was able to tell them he could start Monday morning. Once again...another work of God. Sears is planning a computer training for Monday through Wednesday for their salesmen, so there are no appointments scheduled for those days (as well as NO PAY!). He verified with his manager at Sears that it was okay for him to start on Monday, and it is.

Praise the Lord! We are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for all of your prayers. We really appreciate the love and concern that has been shown to us in the last few weeks.