The Job Hunting Begins!

It’s been a little while since I “blogged”, but I think I’m back. It’s been an adjustment waking up each morning without my Mom. She’s been my focus for such a long time and now that she’s gone I think I must be experiencing a different type of “empty nest syndrome”.

I spent this morning making calls to the Social Security Office, the Government Office of Personnel Management and other places to report her death and to stop benefits she had been receiving. I needed to make the calls last week, but just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

I now need to clean out her closet and send everything that she had left to a Christian Service Center to be used for someone else that might need it.

Jane had tentatively scheduled a pick up today for the lift chair and the lift that she had given me to help in the care of my Mom. It’s been snowing – lightly – since yesterday, so I’m not sure if that’s still on for today. She hasn’t called yet, so I guess they will still be driving out to pick up the equipment. The rental place that supplied the hospital bed and other equipment made their pickup last week, on Monday before the funeral. The only rental equipment left is the oxygen concentrator and I’m not sure where it came from. We brought it home from the nursing home with Mother. I will have to get with Hospice to see if they can figure out who needs to pick it up.
Jody painted my Mom’s room this weekend – red. The name of the paint color is “red hot”. He moved all of our exercise equipment into the room and I have started using my treadmill again! When I brought my Mom home that is something I stopped because we didn’t have any place to set up the equipment. I have no excuse now!

Since my Mom passed, it’s now time for me to go back to work. I have sent out several resumes and through prayer am asking God to open that door for me – in a job where I can make a difference and let others see Him living in me.

Jody and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary yesterday. Yes, we married on Valentine’s Day. We haven’t really celebrated yet but we will this weekend. Jody won a trip, through his job, to Florida for two nights, three days plus tickets to the Daytona Nascar races on Sunday. The hotel accommodations, tickets and roundtrip airfare are all provided to us. We will be leaving on Saturday morning and returning on Monday. I have only flown once in my life and have avoided it ever since because that one flight was more than enough for me!

I’m going to take the plunge this time because it means a lot to Jody. He was top sales in one of the products his employer sells and the trip was actually awarded by the manufacturer of the part, not his employer. It’s a pretty high honor, I think. This is the second year he has been the top seller and has received a nice prize for each year.

Well, I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but I pray that I will allow God to lead me. I pray that I will be able to “hear” His instruction and be led to follow.

Job 37:
1) "At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
2) Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3) He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
4) After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; He does great things beyond our understanding.

Thank you to each and every one of you who has prayed for my family during the last few months. I appreciate it so much and I know those prayers helped us through a lot of anguish and sorrow.