Crisis Averted

Yesterday, for the the first time in 27 years I honestly gave some serious consideration that I might be ready for a job change.  It has been weighing on me for some time that I probably don't want to work in this same field for the rest of my career.  I think there is something else I should be doing.  Something that has to do with helping people.  Touching them.  Impacting them directly.   I just don't what that is or how I can do it.  So, I went out to one of those job search sites and just looked around.  I didn't see anything that even remotely piqued my interest, but I looked.  It was profound enough of a decision that I mentioned it out loud to some of my closest people.  They had never heard me say those words and thought maybe I was supposed to be looking.  Wouldn't you know that today I had an epic, awesome day at work.  I really felt like God was pointing me back to the great job I already have.  Reminding me that it isn't really the work I am doing that has to impact people, but that I can help people, touch people make their day better every day regardless of what job I have.  I dug in today and had some great conversations, got some new projects rolling and the hours flew by.  It was a pretty great day and I am excited for tomorrow.  Maybe, I will table that job search for a while and just do as much good as I can exactly where I am. Crisis averted!

Do you know where I was around 3:00 this afternoon?  I was in my driveway trying to crank my dead Suburban. YIKES!  It was as dead as a doornail.  What does that even mean?  How dead is a doornail?  What is a doornail?  Anyway, I digress.  The Suburban was going NOWHERE!  My sweet friend Lori and her husband Jay came to the rescue and had my car jumped off and charged back up in no time.  I went directly to the car repair shop and got a brand new battery!  In and out in about 30 minutes!  Crisis averted!

I am also grateful for these delicious ribs that just got more magical the longer they stayed in the oven waiting for me to deal with the car crisis.  I love ribs.  They aren't that photogenic unless you give them bonus points for being easy, forgiving and YUMMY.  They get a high five in all three of those areas!

Grateful, grateful, grateful.  So many choices for the Gratitude Journal!

EDUCATIONAL FOOTNOTE:  I looked up Dead as a Doornail and here is what I found: Doornails are the large-headed studs that were used in earlier times for strength and more recently as decoration. The practice was to hammer the nail through and then bend the protruding end over to secure it. This process, similar to riveting, was called clenching. This may be the source of the 'deadness', as such a nail would be unusable afterwards.

Look at me learning something new! 

I hope your day was crisis free or that if a crisis landed in your lap, it was dealt with in short order and you could see God blessing you all over the place!