My Goal
12 years ago
Sunday, March 21, 2010
A Tribute to Audie Schmaltz
My beautiful grandmother passed away on February 17, 2010 after a long illness of Alzheimer’s and a brief illness with lung cancer. It was my privilege to share her life sotry during he memorial service along with a slide show presentation. Following are the pages I made for the slideshow:
A New Beginning
Finally, after seven long months, I am on the road to employment once again. I find that the whole timing of the job has clearly been in God's hands. Interesting how those things work out and how lovingly God smacks us upside the head to remind us he is in control!
It has been a long month of trials as we learned in mid-February that my unemployment benefits were set to run out with no additional money coming through all of the Congress extensions. Needless to say I went into panic mode and had many nights of crying myself to sleep. The Saturday following the bad news about my benefits, I made a decision to look online for any new job postings. I wasn't expecting to find one as most companies don't post new jobs on Saturday and I normally don't look for jobs on Saturday. However I found 3 jobs and applied for all of them. Then we received the news about my Grandmother and all thoughts about a job went out the door.
We went to Colorado for the memorial service and begin the long process of going through my Grandmother's estate. The day after we got back from Colorado, one of the jobs I applied for on that fateful Saturday was interested in me and the rest they say is history. After a successful phone interview and a 4-hr on-site interview, I received a verbal offer for a job. The awesome thing is the job is still in aerospace and offers a better salary and benefits than what I had before with PPP. I am very excited about the new prospects and a new beginning.
God has been good to us during this time and I am reassured by his graciousness when we least expect it. We have been encouraged on a daily basis during this time by our family and friends, specifically those in our Life Group. It is good that God know just what we need when we need it!!
It has been a long month of trials as we learned in mid-February that my unemployment benefits were set to run out with no additional money coming through all of the Congress extensions. Needless to say I went into panic mode and had many nights of crying myself to sleep. The Saturday following the bad news about my benefits, I made a decision to look online for any new job postings. I wasn't expecting to find one as most companies don't post new jobs on Saturday and I normally don't look for jobs on Saturday. However I found 3 jobs and applied for all of them. Then we received the news about my Grandmother and all thoughts about a job went out the door.
We went to Colorado for the memorial service and begin the long process of going through my Grandmother's estate. The day after we got back from Colorado, one of the jobs I applied for on that fateful Saturday was interested in me and the rest they say is history. After a successful phone interview and a 4-hr on-site interview, I received a verbal offer for a job. The awesome thing is the job is still in aerospace and offers a better salary and benefits than what I had before with PPP. I am very excited about the new prospects and a new beginning.
God has been good to us during this time and I am reassured by his graciousness when we least expect it. We have been encouraged on a daily basis during this time by our family and friends, specifically those in our Life Group. It is good that God know just what we need when we need it!!
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