If you have a moment(an Update)

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Still no news. Hours at my present job are about the same. 11 - 12 hours for two weeks hardly seems like it's worth going in. I just have to keep putting in applications sending resumes via e-mail and trusting God that something better will come. I've heard the OTR drivers are still badly needed but with diesel being over 4 bucks a gallon I don't know if that will hold. I've never driven a big rig and have no idea what the job is like I do know it pays a living wage. As far as that job goes I'm praying for guidence. I honestly don't know where to go from here in my life and I just want to give it up to the Lord and see where he will lead. I've been praying too much for what I want and not asking enough what he wants me to do. I'm trying to correct that.

[Traxx]

Still Prayin n pullin for ya pard.

[Doc Nock]

Curtiss,

Only caution I can offer that I know applies to me in that boat...which is seeming to be fast pulling back into my dock as well... is this:

REly always on the Lord...but he gave us the time, mind and energy to leave no stone unturned.

If you have free phone, maybe you can make some calls to places that aren't hiring and offer to work a day to show what you can do. We just had a guy do that and hired him as a machinist after seeing what he can do...

Long shot..just trying to come up with anything that might trigger some new ideas for ya, brother.

Yer in constant prayer...

Keep the Son in your eyes, bud!

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Well it's getting worse before it gets better(notice the optimism in that statement)
I'm only scheduled 4.5 hours this week. I just don't understand it. I do my job(any job the assign me) as well or better than anyone else that does it. I don't take cigarette breaks, I look for things to do and don't just stand around during slow periods. I'm qualified and experienced enough to be the general manager of this place. I don't let them know that. I keep my mouth shut at work. I rarely talk about much but the weather. Well my car is not running, I am not getting enough hours to put gas in it or insure it if it was. I have bills everyone has,utilities, etc. I ordered a bow back when I had a fulltime job and still owe on it and have no idea when I will be able to(the bowyer is getting antsy) I really am just not sure where to go or what to do except straight to the mercy seat of God the Father and pray and trust and obey. I will not behave as if I am hopeless. I have all hope. I worship the Hope Bringer. Halleluia and Amen.

[bowdude]

Now in WI anything under 30 hours a week is eligable for partial unemployment.  Have you looked in to that?

[Doc Nock]

Curtiss,

Thanks for sharing your positive hope int he face of all the challenges. We all need to keep that focus. Myself included. It's hard at times!

But it wouldn't be a "praise sacrifice" if it was always easy to worship Him, huh?  

I keep reading that company's don't care as much about one's abilities, as they do about whether you "fit in". I listened to some tapes this AM about all the frustration we will face as Christians...because the Devil has to try to pry us from God's grasp.

You surely have had your challenges.  I'm not much help with ideas, but if you were concerned about the bow, perhaps the bowyer would give you contact information on some guys "below" you on his "list" to see if your bow is close enough to their needs that you might get them to buy out your deposit, or some of it and advance up the chain?

Short term fix, for sure.  I admire your tenacity and you inspire me iwth my own challenges w/ work!  

Keep the Son in your eyes.

[Curtiss Cardinal]

My bow is a "one of" It's a 100% phenolic riser, no accent stripe. A "Plain Jane" pure hunting weapon. This is a bowyer that people buy the bows of because they are functional works of art. I doubt anyone besides me would want it.

[Doc Nock]

Hang in there, Bud. Sounds like you're doing what you need to do to keep the shiney side up!

Faith is powerful...and just keeping on keeping on is what we're required to do...

Let God drive the bus, but we got to check tires, clean windows and keep gas pumped into the bus!  

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Curtis I am praying for ya Brother. I have been in your EXACT position and have seen GOD do some miraculous things so don't loose your Hope!!

[BenBow]

Prayers continue

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Thanks everyone

[Mrs Stickman]

The light is more apparent in the darkness.

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Any update Curtis?? Still praying for you guys!

[Doc Nock]

I think Curtiss only gets "on line" when he's at the library.

Keep the Son in your eyes, brother, C2!  

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Nothing new to report but this is where it stands.
Getting less than 20 hours per two week at work, usually 14.
My car is broken down, either hed gasket or cracked block. I pray it is the former.
My injured leg makes it hard to walk the nearly 2 miles to my job.
I haven't had the money or insurance to cover doctors or dentists or pharmasist bills.

my daughter will be 12 this year and I last held or saw her when she was 3.
Still waking on the background check for the job.
Life is apparently getting worrse before is gets better.

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Still praying for you Curtis!

[BenBow]

This helped me this morning so hope it helps you and others.
"Perseverance means more than endurance— more than simply holding on until the end. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, "I can’t take any more." Yet God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God’s hands. Is there something in your life for which you need perseverance right now? Maintain your intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the perseverance of faith. Proclaim as Job did, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" ( Job 13:15  )."

[Doc Nock]

Benson,

That is amazing. I might have to copy and print that out for myself.  I hope it helps Curtiss as much as it does inspire me to persevere.

Curtis, using Benson's analogy in his shared words, Our Lord must have a rather long draw for He's surely stretching and pullin on ya! In that book, Dream Giver I recommended to you, it shows how God often allows "wilderness time" to test if our faith is large enough for the BIG plan He has for us.  

Here's another item that keeps me centered... and will be printed out and on my bulletin board at home in from of me daily, now that I'll be unemployed come Monday.. I hope it can inspire you along with Benson's words:
***************************************
My Lord God

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it
will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following
your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you,
and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though
I may know nothing about it.

Therefore I will trust you always.

Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death I will not
fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my
peril alone.

Thomas Merton,

1915-1968

[C2@TheLibrary]

tradgang has been one of my few blessings right now. People I have never met sending me a a gift to help with bills. Still no word on the job I was waiting on the background check for. It promised to be just about the best job I could get in this area and I have had over 200 people pray for me to get this job if it was God's will but it is beginning to look like it isn't so. I guess I need prayer to figure out what Gopd's will for my life is. I can't go much longer without a real job. I'll be homeless soon. and without a car that is running that means on the street with just a backpack with my clothes in it as my tent was stolen from my storage unit so I can't even have that to live in in the woods somewhere. I'm at the end of my rope almost. I don't know what to do.

[MJB]

C2 Prayers Sent