God got me a job!

“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” – Mathew 7:11

Yes. You read my title correctly my father in heaven got me a job.

I’ve been meaning to write about this but it was truly such a long journey that I had no idea how to start or if I can put all the details and emotions in one blog post.

Well I guess I can start off on graduation day. I graduated college almost a year ago   as a first generation graduate (Woohoo!!) with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology.

Well, as I was headed back home to Brooklyn all I knew was that I was going to volunteer at an Occupational Therapy clinic that specialized in Hand Therapy. I had no job lined up, no grad school, nothing.

Well after all the congratulations and likes on my graduation posts faded away my real life settled in and so did the post grad blues.

I looked at jobs everyday. I spent countless hours on Craigslist and Indeed daily just looking and applying to jobs. At first I focused more on rehabilitation type jobs (OT/ PT aide) but after a while I got frustrated and just applied to random things. I would get interviews to these random jobs and I would never get the actual jobs. I became extremely frustrated because I felt like I kept wasting my metro card fares going on these interviews, my emotions were all over the place and I started wondering if I was incompetent or came off in a bad way.

So by August when my frustration was at an all time high I went on an interview to be a cashier at a fast food place in the city.

I’m not exaggerating but I felt extremely uncomfortable during the interview and I actually wanted to cry while I was speaking to the guy that was interviewing me (Don’t judge me, I’m an emotional girl LOL). As the interview was over he told me that I got the job and told me when training would start. I was not excited at all, not that I felt like I was too good for that job because I certainly wasn’t but I guess I just didn’t feel peace. While working there I felt so miserable and I never disliked something so much in my life, I especially hated having to wear a skirt to work everyday. Well let me tell you I worked at this job for almost two weeks and I quit. The day that I quit  felt so amazing. It worked out so perfectly and I felt peace. I don’t know how to explain it but I felt great, never felt so happy to be unemployed my whole life.

Well my job search continued and fast forward to November (Yes 6 months after graduation) I did my regular routine of going on Craigslist. I stopped looking at the medical section because I felt like I never got call backs for those kinds of jobs, but that particular day I looked in that section. As I was looking I saw a position as a clinician aide at a hand therapy clinic. I learned not to get excited about any jobs but I prayed that I would get that job because that’s exactly what is spent my summer doing volunteering at a hand therapy clinic!

Well I went on the interview and they really liked me! They loved that I spent my summer at a hand therapy clinic, was familiar with the modalities, knew how to speak Spanish and also the owner knew the therapist of where I volunteered before.

This time when the interviewer told me when my training would start I felt peace, I felt joy and this time I knew it was God. Also, not sure if I’ve mentioned this before but I have an interest in the occupational therapy field so this job was perfect for me to build my resume and for me to see more of the OT world.

It was like Wow, God knew from back then when I was volunteering where I would be in November. He was preparing me back then for this job and I didn’t even know it. He knew that I would go through that period of feeling as if I’m in the wilderness and of feeling frustrated. He used those months to increase my trust/ faith in him and for me to see that his word is true! During that time he also thought me the importance of worship because there were some days that I felt so awful that I had no words to say during prayers that all I could do was worship.

Although it was not a good time financially/ emotionally it was a great time spiritually that I often-even miss. When you feel like you have nothing you learn to cling to God so tight because you learn that he’s your ultimate source.

So I wrote this blog to just encourage you to wait IN God.

Sometimes when your waiting on something it feels as if God is punishing you but he’s actually preparing you for that thing, if it’s his will of course.`

I know its frustrating when you pray and you haven’t seen God come through for you but trust that’s he’s working it out. When we try to do certain things ourselves we end up miserable and without peace. But when we wait on him, he will bless us  even more than we could ever imagine.So continue to trust God for that new job, school, spouse, child or whatever it is. His timing is perfect.

And I’m nothing special so if he can do it for me , he can certainly do it for you !

Love,

Giselle A. Parris