What to do, what to do...

So it has been aprox 2 weeks since Jake lost his job...not much response in the way of job leads...but really, Jake doesn't really want to get back into the Corporate world.

We have not been involved in Ministry since we left Faith Church in Norwalk. We left there a little deflated, since we worked so hard to grow the ministry with not much success. When Jake got the Oakley job and we started attending Saddleback, we decided to just attend for a bit and get connected with people through small groups...that was 2 years ago...

We have been doing a study called 40 Days in the Word...and I have been so excited about this simply because I have been longing to get a deeper connection with God, and to just grow, grow, grow....I have been loving the devotions and the lessons...they have been great!!

And what have I been getting the most out of this series?? SERVE!!! My longing to reach out to the body of Christ is rejuvinated! Our ministry itch is itching! We BOTH want to get back into ministry...but we also need to keep the roof over our heads, keep the children fed, and keep them up to schedule on school. So we are challenged with just HOW to go about a ministry...

Ideas from traveling in an RV and serving churches around the US, to starting a couples ministry have come to mind...and even returning to NY since our home there is without renters (again!)but we are now just looking for confirmation and clarity on what direction to go, and how to do this. Whatever THIS is....

So please say a little prayer for us today. Since sometimes that little thing called confusion seems to be weighing us down a bit at times. We are at peace with all the loss of work stuff, and are actually happy it happened...we were very comfortable, and I think we needed all this to happen to shake things up a bit!

When God closes a door, He opens a window

So today, Jake lost his job with Oakley...and I'm really OK with it.

Did I cry? Yes, for a couple of minutes...more due to shock than anything else. We knew job stuff was up in the air...but we also knew a bunch of people had gone to Jake's new boss, saying he is not one who should be let go...and we THOUGHT we were in negotiations for a new position...so when Jake came home, bags in hand asking me to take a picture to document the day Oakley fired him...well I was a little surprised.

But on this day, a day that should be filled with huge amounts of stress, of "what nows"?? I was blessed to witness the closeness in Jake's relationship with his brother Seth...you see, Seth works at Oakley too...they worked in the same department. Jake hooked Seth up with a job at Oakley over a year ago.

So when Jake got home, he called Seth to see about retrieving some files from his computer...and learned at that moment Seth was being escorted out of the building because he himself had quit. Seth had quit because he did not agree with the manner in which Jake's firing was handled...he simply said "family first". This brought tears to my husbands eyes. He could not believe his brother did that. Seth came straight to our house, where the brothers hugged it out and spent the afternoon on the patio, enjoying the sun and discussing all the opportunity they now had before them.

It truly was a beautiful thing to witness.

Yes, a door was closed today. But they always say, when God closes a door, he opens a window. I look forward to seeing what God does, and I look forward to seeing this relationship between 2 brothers grow even stronger.