sadness

[janackeh]

i lost my job this morning. it was the first job i actually took pride in. i cannot even express the sadness i feel...literally...im so numb to it--i cant even describe it. i know God has a plan through all of this. in this deep dark sadness and rejection i feel right now...i know there is a bigger plan.

this will pass.
pray for me.

Comments

[punkyami_chan]

Were you fired or laid off? Either way, I totally understand the rejection. I got laid off in the beginning of November. The corporate office decided to ax my department throughout the whole company. The ironic part was that my department actually did what they were supposed to do and was a leader for the rest of the company. We were better than the same department down at the corporate office. I was brought back to the company two weeks later to do something else. I'm completely miserable. God has to know this, but as of yet He hasn't provided me with anything else.

I'll keep you in my prayers.

[janackeh]

i was fired....but the reassuring part was that it wasnt for anything bad--i just couldnt quite progress at a fast enough pace during training, which, with a police radio--sone people can do it and some people can't. i was encouraged by the superior who let me go to apply at smaller cities and jurisdictions who may not have as big of a call volume as the county i was workign for, so thats what im doing. its monday now, and i have a renewed sense of readiness and hope to get started on the job search again, so im feeling pretty good about it right now. thank you for your prayers. i definitely understand that miserable-at-work feeling, but continue to be positive and pray...when you walk in at the beginning of the day, be prayed up and ready to face whatever comes...go to the bathroom and sing worship songs to yourself it you have to (ive had to do that before) and God is faithful and will uplift your spirits...don't give up...He's got a purpose in all of this...

GRIEF

[clonnie]

Thoughts of
Cardinal Hume O. S. B.

Grief cannot be shared,

For it is mine alone.

Grief is a dying within me,

A great emptiness, a frightening void.

It is loneliness,

A sickening sorrow at night,

an awakening a terrible dread.

Another’s words do not help.

A reasoned argument explains little

for having tried too much.

Silence is the best response to another’s grief.

Not the silence that is a pause in speech,

Awkward and unwanted,

but one that unites heart to heart.

Love, speaking in silence, is the way into the void the

void of another’s grief.

The best of all loves comes silently,

and slowly too, to soften the pain of grief,

And begin to dispel the sadness.

It is the love of God, warm and true,

which will touch the grieving heart and heal it.

Hew looks at the grieving person and has pity,

for grief is a great pain.

He came among us to learn about grief

And much else too, the Man of sorrows.

He knows. He understands.

Grief will yield to peace - in time.