Miracles

Dear Readers,

Have you ever thought “what is meant to be will be”? I have, and this past week I came across an extraordinary example of just that.

Those of you following my blog already know about the stresses and issues in my life right now. If you are new to my blog however, just know that I am just a guy struggling to make it through this wondrous thing we call life.

One of my most recent major stresses and concerns was finding a way to get myself down south to where my 8-month pregnant wife had already relocated. After months of “Yes the job is yours!…wait no never mind” and “You sold your house…wait no never mind” I was at the end of my depression filled rope.

I turned to God and I prayed. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am not a devout Christian and I (sadly) do not pray as often as I should but I had run out of options as far as I was concerned. So I prayed to God to help me find the answer as to what I was supposed to do.

That same night, I told my wife over the phone that if I had not heard anything about a new job by the next day, that she could come back up here and we would stay put for another year. Neither of us was happy about this idea but we had to make a decision on something as our baby was now due in just 1 month!

The next day (Friday) came and at 1pm, I received a phone call from an employer that I had never applied too. He received my resume from someone else I had applied to not 2 weeks before. How miraculous is that? He essentially offered me the job in less than 10 minutes of talking to him. That was the end of the good news however. What followed was a slew of messy emails from said employer, an employee contract that seemed a tad on the illegal side, him not willing to negotiate on wage or vacation or moving expenses in the slightest, me having to start in a mere week and so on.  It just sent up all kinds of warning bells.

Even with all the nonsense, I was ready to accept the position because, let’s face it, it was a way to get down to where my wife already was for when the baby comes. I could keep looking for something else afterwards. However, when things couldn’t get stranger, this employer, who was dying to get me down there because they were in such a bind, suddenly stopped communicating with me. After a whole day of silence, I finally get an email back from him which…well let me just paste his response:

I am uncomfortable with this and feel that we have gotten off on the wrong foot from the start. We are looking for someone who will stay with **** for years to come and if we start off wrong, this will never happen.

Due to this,**** is unable to offer you employment at this time.
I will inform the management at ***** that we have not hired you.

Best of luck with your future endeavors.

He also included an official letter which he signed entitled “Formal withdrawal of offer of employment”. So ended the roller coaster of emotions, stress, anxiety and second guessing myself of the past 4 days.  I had a really bad gut feeling from the beginning and this ending just proved it to be accurate.

What is truly miraculous is that this story has a happy ending. After all of that, I got the answer I had prayed for. I decided to stay where I am right now where my current boss (who never wanted me to leave – that’s always a bit of an ego boost right?) gave me both a raise and the time off I need for when baby comes as well as time off for my surgery whenever THAT day comes!

It just goes to show you that God truly does work in mysterious ways. When one door closes, another truly opens.

I leave you with this quote from Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.