For those of you that have been reading my blog for any amount of time lately I think you will realize I am not perfectly content in my present company. I have spent a lot of time in prayer. There are some issues. There are usually issues with any company because, of course, I am the perfect employee and no company is really good enough for me. (I am totally jesting on that last statement)

Nonetheless, even though I am definitely not a perfect employee, I do commonly get my work in on time and most of my patients say good things about me so I tend to do okay in most businesses.

The other thing is I like to keep busy. I enjoy making money and in my business if you are not overwhelmed with work you are not making much money. Therein lies the problem. I have yet to be overwhelmed with the amount of work that is thrown my way.

Since working is usually about making money to pay bills I have been quite vexed that the amount of money I am making has not been paying my bills in the manner I would prefer to have them paid. So I have prayed and prayed about this predicament and I have applied and interviewed with a few other pebbles on the beach. My interviews have gone well and in some I was even given the terms of employment. Yet for some reason I was prevented from leaving my current place of employment.

So I began praying differently. Instead of asking God to get me out of there right now, I asked God to teach me what He wanted me to learn. I have learned many things. I have learned that gossiping about someone does little to nothing to change that person because you are usually doing it behind their back. I have also learned that I don’t need to worry or fret about what my boss is doing wrong if it is affecting someone else. I am nobody’s Saviour. They need to take their burdens to Jesus and let Him handle it. I have also learned that some people just don’t know how to listen to sage advice and if they don’t know how to listen I can try to send them an email. With my gift as a writer, my emails are pretty powerful and much more effective than my blabbering on and on about things.

So I thought I had learned enough and I was still interviewing with other companies. Last week I got an offer that seems to be a pretty good deal but I didn’t have peace about leaving my current company. So I decided I would work for two different companies. Most nurses in my business have at least two or three companies that they work for to get a full time load of patients. So it is not like I am trying to be a super nurse, it is just the way the crow flies in this business.

I was still praying about this because although I am not achieving my financial goals I am doing a lot of writing in my novel and I know that is God’s will for my life. The one thing I needed in that arena was an editor. I had one a couple of years ago but I think he would be out of my price range now. I started praying for an editor eons ago and asked every friend that I had if they had any editing skills. I got nowhere. I was getting a bit put out with God to say the least.

Then last week at a meeting at my present company I was sitting next to the new lady who is the new marketer. We had gotten to know each other a little bit and I liked her. She told me that she had been a cop at one time and also an English teacher. I said, “Hold on there. You were an English teacher?”

She replied, “Yes. I taught English.”

As my heart started to flutter wildly I said. “Have you ever edited any manuscripts?”

She said, “Yes, I have and I would like to do more. I am trying to build up my portfolio.”

We had a meeting last night and I hired her.

So the moral of the story is that when God doesn’t answer your prayer in the time frame you are expecting Him to it may be because He is trying to hit two birds with one stone. I got an editor and a way to make a sustainable living all in one week. If I would have quit my job and not prayed I would be unemployed and still searching high and low for an editor. Sometimes God is just so amazing and each and every day I am learning in baby steps how to trust Him with absolutely every part of my life. He really is so great.