Fact: We are not in the Garden of Eden
What can I do to erase my banishment from the Garden of Eden? I want to go there.
As far as I know, you will go there after you die, if you’ve been a person faithful to Christ. That’s what Christ did for mankind, he gave us the gift of everlasting life in the presence of God in Heaven. If you’ve ever read the descriptions of Heaven in Revelation, it sounds a whole lot like the Garden of Eden.
But you can be. If it were not possible God would not have made it a command.
We will be part of the new heaven and the new earth–far superior to the Garden of Eden. Eden was never meant to be our eternal home. God always had better plans for us than that. Eden was a testing ground to see if man would obey or if he would fail and have to be redeemed. We know what happened.
I’m not there yet. And it frustrates me that I can’t make progress. I feel like I’ve been walking and then hit a brick wall and can’t make any further progress.
It was meant to be a temporary home, and that’s why I need to be there. I have to figure out somehow to survive until I die.
I know this.
What is your prayer life like? Do you feed your soul with good spiritual reading? Do you attend Mass as prescribed by the Church? If you are doing all these thing and are still going through a “dark night of the soul” it means God is prompting you to seek him in deeper ways than you have before. It might help to go to adoration and just sit with Jesus and tell him your heart.
Survive in what way? I’m confused.
Unless you are doing something immoral to earn a living, holding down a job should in no way impede your spiritual life. Our work is also prayer, if we do it for love of God and neighbor. Saying prayers isn’t the only way to grow in holiness. How we conduct our daily lives matters and “counts” as well. It’s why Jesus told us to “take up your cross daily and follow me.”
My prayer life is a monologue. I wish it were a conversation. For ACTS prayer style, I do ACT and tend to leave off the S a lot. I read spiritual reading from time to time. I attend mass every week and every holy day of obligation, and sometimes go on some daily masses. I’m doing the first Saturdays and then will switch to first fridays.
I can’t keep a job.Survive in what way? I’m confused.
This is amazing. Thank you.
I am confused. How was your perfection or lack thereof–required by a command of the Lord?
Don’t know what to say about this other than I will add you and your job search to my prayers and I hope others here will also. It’s a little late now but you might look into taking the H&R Block class - in order to prepare taxes. If you have three college degrees I assume you can do the work. It is not too expensive and it might help you get your foot in the door of a CPA firm during tax season–which might then turn into offseason work, I know two people who have just recently done this. One of them has recently passed the CPA exam also. And while things may be a normal pace now–things will ramp up again in August, September and October–as business and individual returns that have been extended need to be completed.
[BIBLEDRB]Matthew 5:48[/BIBLEDRB]
Thanks!
Tax season is over. And they pay $10/hour for tax preparers. Ridiculous, eh? I wouldn’t need to take the course anyway, I have a CPA too.
When my dh was out of a permanent job for several years, he thought about being a H&RB tax consultant, but it paid too low. He did get a contract job with them working on their computers. Thanks be to God, though he now has a permanent job in his field that pays what he deserves.
O.K. the pay may be low at H & R Block – but is it better to make low pay or no pay? Especially if you have exhausted all of your unemployment benefits? I thought it was about trying to survive. My point was that it was gaining a skill that is marketable and can be built upon-a way to get your foot in the door or possibly hang out a shingle. Our most recent hire - got their initail training at H & R Block and one of the other professionals who shares office space with us also just hired someone who got their training there also–both have worked out well better than the last few CPA’s we hired. We have had a hard time finding good CPA’s to hire–even through the recession. These people got their foot in the door because they had some tax training–that was my point.
I’m truly sorry if I offended you, but I wasn’t ragging on H&RB. As I said, my dh did work for them, but as a computer consultant. I know a gal who supplements the family income every tax season by being one of their tax preparers. I agree that any and every opportunity that comes along should be taken no matter how small–to earn money and to get experience.
My dh took many contract jobs while trying to find solid full time employment. I’m all for it. 
It is I who should be sorry if I sounded (or is it read as if I was) offened. If anything I felt as if the point of my post was missed–that was all. I was just trying to clarify it.I’m truly sorry if I offended you, but I wasn’t ragging on H&RB. As I said, my dh did work for them, but as a computer consultant. I know a gal who supplements the family income every tax season by being one of their tax preparers. I agree that any and every opportunity that comes along should be taken no matter how small–to earn money and to get experience.
Yeah, then it is worth it when unemployment has run out. But the rest of the year, there are no contract jobs with them.
Yes, but they aren’t the only company that takes contract workers. Have you put your name in at employment agencies? Maybe if you started a thread in the Faith and Finances forum you would get more responses from people who have some good ideas for you.
I’m an IT contractor. I’ve got my resume on twenty job boards and apply 50-100 jobs a week. I even have resumes on government job boards.
My dh the same when he was looking for a permanent job. I know how hard it is. It took years before he got in at a good place. Keep on praying and trying. I will pray too.
Try going to places that have outsourced their IT to India and have terrible results. I can think of a few fortune 500’s that did just that. Get yourself in their business as a customer, and when you see the problem in front of you save that receipt and call that 800 number. Tell them what did not go smoothly and how it could have gone smoothly.