God is so good.
After my little pity party, things got a little better. Evidently, He wasn't kidding around when He said something along the lines of prayer, something along the lines of its efficacy.
1. Some of you joined me in praying that the overwhemitis would decrease. It did. I'm now at a code Panic instead of a code Heart Attack. Fun fact: the stress-heart attack link was not discovered until a physician noticed that the edges of his waiting-room seats were worn down. Funner fact: the rate of heart attacks is significantly higher in trial lawyers than in the general population.
2. I had to go to an event in an unfamiliar and rural area last week. My GPS informed me that the building was a patch of grass 20+ miles from where I needed to be...but next to an old-timey diner filled with nice country folks who gave me spot-on directions and told me to come back for a post-event beer. And, because God never lets me forget that Stuff Like This Happens, I gave myself plenty of extra time and arrived to my event a comfortable 45 minutes early.
3. This tickles me: again, with the GPS, I had to turn left into traffic...on a heavily traveled 4-lane road. Now, I'm very careful about left turns...but I also panic when there are people behind me, imagining how frustrated they are. So I said "Lord, please give me a safe opening here." And not more than 5 seconds later there was. Ha! Love it!
4. I do a lot of writing for journals and textbooks and a lot of lecturing. It takes up a ton of time that I can't get paid for. This firm asked me to aitionally handle several chapters in another textbook...which takes up MASSIVE amounts of time. Just when I started wondering whether I could convince my physician to prescribe an inhaler to a non-asthmatic, I got the brilliant idea of outsourcing the majority of that work to law students, i.e. slave labor. Approved. Now picking out some bushy-tailed law students for summer help.
5. The new firm took so long to give me info on health benefits that I assumed the benefits were minimal. I worried that despite being told in the salary negotiations that the benefits were "stellar," they were now playing around, thinking "she just hung up her diplomas in her office; she probably won't quit now if the benefits are junk." Finally got the materials this week and they are stellar.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
See; I said it would all come good! ☺ My Liddy gets peeved because God knows I really, really, *really* hate traffic & always gives me space both in front & behind. It is rare for me to be blocked in even in heavy traffic.
Out here it is right hand turns. I'm not well & was wondering what on earth was bothersome about LHTs ~ but I get it now. ☺
Allison, I've been reading and commenting on your blog for a long time and I want to tell you that you're one of my favorites....
I'm learning over the past 4 months just how much prayer can change situations that seem insurmountable...all we have to do is just ask and then let go.
:)
Great that things are looking up. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. I didn't come up with it, but it is so true.
Post a Comment