Happy last-week-of-Advent, everyone.
I haven’t posted in awhile for reasons I’ll get to momentarily, but wanted to let you know that my job / financial situation has improved. The non-paid live-in night caregiver situation with a friend’s elderly dad is being renogotiated to a paid position and I started work at a day-time job part time last Tuesday. It’s with a non-profit which is what I wanted. It will be really good experience and together with the caregiving will meet my needs and allow me to replenish my savings until the economy improves and a regular position opens up. It was just in the nick of time, too - I’d gone through my savings, had gotten some help from a church in November and borrowed money from a friend for my December expenses. Yesterday I received a Christmas gift in the exact amount I’d borrowed from my friend so hopefully won’t have to stay in the hole too long! Thank you for your prayer and concern, especially to those who PM’d or emailed me while I’ve been away from the forum.
I left the forum awhile back because of some gossip that was circulating behind the scenes.
I was hurt and angry and didn’t feel I should be praying on the forum when what I really wanted was to throttle somebody. I needed to get some perspective. So, my perspective’s back, and so is my sense of humor, which took a little while longer. Just to correct some misinformation, though, I’m not “new age”, I’m not Buddhist and I most certainly believe in God. I’m a Catholic revert of 20 years. More that that was said but for the sake of charity I’ll just say that if anyone would like to clarify anything, just PM me. I would just like to say, though, that this kind of thing is very destructive and surely doesn’t belong on a Catholic prayer forum.
The irony of this is that I used to have a gift for intercessory prayer, especially hands-on. But a series of losses, failures and resulting depression led me to doubt it, to believe God had withdrawn it because I wasn’t worthy or that it hadn’t been real in the first place. This forum was the first attempt I’d made at coming back to intercessory prayer in 3 years. I hadn’t been here very long when the gossip started. That in itself should have told me quite a lot, but it still took me awhile to figure it out. Now that I’m working again I won’t be able to spend so much time at the computer, but for whatever it’s worth, here I am. I missed you guys.
As for the Christmas gift in the exact amount that you had borrowed … doesn’t that show how well our loving Father cares for us? Just wonderful 