Sunday, June 14, 2009

Seeing Gods Path

How to start this.....I wanted to take a account of all that God has done for us the last few months. God has really been good, even though we are going through some changes God is really leading the way for us.

Background:

Lewis was let go from his Job of 4 year with Texas A&M University when Grayson was two weeks old, that was one week after his Paternity Leave. He has never had a bad evaluation until August 2008. Everything was great at home but the pressure he was feeling at work was really getting to him and you could tell. Lewis had to pull 2 weeks with the Guard to help with Hurricane Ike. While he was serving in Houston, something went wrong at the office and he was not there to fix it. He came back to the first write up he had ever received. Then at home I was 24 weeks pregnant and I ended up having Gallstones and had to have surgery. Lewis was by my side all day and night the whole time I was in the hospital for a week. He had the Sick Leave, he never took off unless he just HAD to. Again, something happened while he was out and he was written up again for the 2nd time and was told his job was on the line. What stress for him to deal with, it hurt him badly. He tried and TRIED his best to do nothing wrong. Then I was close to labor with our 3rd Son. He worked till 11:00PM to get everything done. He even took the two boys to his work to get a few more things taken care of while I labored at home with a coach. He was trying to dot all his i's and cross all his t's, but with all that he did they still found something and the 3rd and final write up came. He was let go Febuary 23, 2009. This is the part I want to concentrate one.


Provisions God has made for us:

  1. Time, God gave us time, not just time to think but time to save. We saved a good amount of money to make a good number of months without a job.
  2. Refinancing our home, God opened the door for us to refinance our home and we SIGNED papers ONE day BEFORE Grayson was born. This made it so we did not have to pay a house payment for 2 months and they sent us over a thousand back from escrow to put into savings.
  3. Time of year, taxes were just filed and we got back a nice refund, we were able to use this to pay bills. Also, in July Lewis will be getting a bonus from the National Guard, this will also be used to pay our bills.
  4. Comfort and calmness, I have been faithful that God will show us the way he wants to go. I know he is testing our Faithfuness and I am so greatful for this time.
  5. It was also just confermed with the TWC that Lewis was Fired wrongly, so he will get back pay for unemployment benifits.
What we are praying for:

There are 4 job opertunitys that Lewis is up for.

  • Offier in the US Air Force
  • AGR spot at Ellington Feild
  • Recurter position with the Air Force full time enlisted
  • Education position with the Army
These are in order. The first two we will not fine anything out till September.

We know God is walking with us and guiding us.

1 comment:

Lisa Rider said...

Wow Traci! What blessings, I am sorry Lewis lost his job but it sounds like better things are to come.