Blessings in Disguise

What a whirlwind we have been in since last Wednesday.  It started out as a normal day of getting up, getting boys off to school and then heading into work.  After lunch, I had a meeting that I wasn't sure what it was about.  That meeting turned out to be the firm laying me off! OMG! I had talked about it being slow and thought that it might could happen but for it actually to happen really scared me and shocked me.  Shocked because even though you think about it, you really don't want to think of it actually happening! So I was off to pack up my office that contained 7 years worth of stuff! Oh at the boxes! Then it was home to tell Ryan.  He hugged me and told me it was ok, and that we would make it.  Then we talked about how things seemed to add up.  We knew that we would have to learn to live without my check when I got accepted into nursing school, but according to our timing we weren't ready to live without it.  However, God's timing and plans are Far Greater than ours ever could be! We know that God has great things in store for us and we are trusting God's promise.  He never closes a door without opening another one. 

After crying about the situation, I collected myself and reminded myself that God was still with us and that he promised never to leave us nor forsake us.  So I held my head up and moved on, knowing that things would work out.  That was until Sunday.  I cried through church and the the rest of the day I was in a fog.  I was having moments of guilt that Ryan was the only one working, I felt worried about money and so many other things.  Needless to say it was a poor pitiful Alicia day! But then this morning God woke me up to so many reminders of how this whole situation was a blessing in disguise.  There were many things pointing to this. 
- Even without a job, I still have my family, our health, our extended families, our friends and most   importantly, we have our Lord and Savior and our Faith!
- I have a husband that still has an income.
- I had complained about work for a long time.  It was slow, I had nothing to do, and was not enjoying it. So why was I so upset about not being there anymore?
- I had prayed for more time to spend in my bible and with God
- God promised me Nursing school

You want to talk about a wake up call. God never promised there wouldn't be heartache and pain.  He never promised that everything would go my way and that it would be a straight path to everything I wanted! But I know with him on our side and providing for us, that everything is going to be OK!  I have heard this song on K-Love several times and liked it from the first time that I heard it.  But it really didn't hit me until last week just how true this song is!!