God's Provision

The past couple of months have been a blur of concern, decisions, and changes. Isaac's parents made the leap of faith to close the counseling center that has been their family business for the last thirteen years. His mom's health has been a roller coaster that seems to be down more often than up and the decision was made that it would be best for her health to enter retirement.  They have moved to their lakehouse in northern Indiana where Isaac's dad is looking for a job in the area.  

Isaac has worked for the counseling center since the beginning so obviously the decision to close effected us greatly.  Because all the counselors wanted the opportunity to speak to their patients individually without having to worry that they would find out about the closing via the rumor mill we have had to keep the news to ourselves for quite some time.  We knew about it for almost a month before we even told my parents.  That was so hard!

Naturally, when we found out there was a mixture of relief (we knew this would be the best thing for his mom), concern (we wondered how easy would it be for Isaac to find another job), and excitement (this gives Isaac the opportunity to explore a "new" career field that he is interested in). Isaac quietly began having conversations with a few men at church that he is close to about job possibilities and had them help him work in his resume.

A friend that we have known for many years through church has been nudging Isaac to interview at his work for a couple of years now.  But Isaac had been happy working at the counseling center and saw no need to seek employment elsewhere.  Well, now the need had arose. Near the end of April Isaac had his first job interview in nearly fifteen years.  It went well. The following business day a job offer was made. Yay!

It has been a really rough few weeks for Isaac as he has had to work on finishing things up at the office, saying goodbye to coworkers and clients. He genuinely loved doing what he did there, the variety of his position.  He handled the finances, the computer networking, and he did substance abuse counseling.  He had not looked for another job until now because he was happy working where he was at.  So it has been especially hard seeing everything that he has worked so hard for end. Honestly, he hasn't quite been himself in awhile.  Its been wearing on all of us.

But finally the light at the end of the tunnel is nearing.  Today is the first day of his new job.  He will be working as a level two IT support person for a company who makes/sells hardware/software for video surveillance systems.  Isaac has already been able to familiarize himself with the system and is confident that this will be a good fit for his personality and his skills.  It will be different for him to be working in one specialized area since Isaac was so used to being the all around go-to-guy for most things at the office before.

Also, the new hours will be an adjustment.  Isaac has been afforded much flexibility while working for his parents and they accommodated his sleeping disorder by allowing his hours to be dictated by his sleep schedule.  Obviously a big corporation will not make such allowances.  For his week of training (this week) his hours are 8a-5p, so he left the house at 6:45am this morning!  But his usual hours will be 10a-7p.  Those hours were a relief in that it will be better for his sleeping issues, but it will be hard to not have him around for dinner during the week.  We will all have to get used to all these changes.

We are eager to see what the Lord has in store for us in this new phase of life. We know that He has it all worked out for His glory.  We're just along for the ride! 

So that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:7
 
God is good!