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Yes! I am a sucker for signs. I know that this is not the way to be, that I should not test the Divine but I cannot help it. The signs that I have asked have been my guiding compass through the most important decisions of my life --
1. My husband - when I met him in Boracay in the Summer of 2006, I always thought what everybody else thought, "What happens in Bora, stays in Bora." On the first working day when I got back to Manila, I prayed to God to guide me if there ever was a future for this mysterious man I met at the beach. I asked God that IF that guy would text me before 5:00 PM on that day, that means there could be some future for us. I squirmed as minutes passed by. When 4:30 PM passed and still I got no text, I told myself that was that -- just another forgettable Boracay rendezvous. By around 4:49 something, he texted me, "How's work?" I almost fell off my chair.
2. My work - All my life I knew that I will always be a marketing person. I never considered any other profession. When my current post was offered to me, I had my hesitations. I did not want to leave my team, I loved what I was doing, I hated socializing and so on. Going home, I asked God that if I see a plate number with a CC (acronym for the new group which was being offered to me) on it, I would gladly accept the role. I had my hesitations of course, knowing that it is too seldom that I see plate numbers with CC. After I finished praying, in a minute or two, I saw a car with a CC plate number. I made my decision right there and then and have no regrets, so far.
I am just citing this because today, the signs are too overwhelming. It is filling me with too much gratitude and hope. I have this habit of praying over a book and asking God for guidance through the contents of a random page flip. This morning, I got this from the first book --
a. Anticipation is a key stage to happiness. - The Happiness Journal, Gretchin Rubin
Excited with this message, I flipped the Bible and this is the page where I landed --
b. Ecclesiastes 11
5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
I almost cried when I read this. It only affirms that we need to do what we have to do as well from our end then equip our treatments with prayers because both might equally do us well.
Lastly, this was the message from God (a Facebook app) that I got today --
Thank you, Lord, for sending us your message in so many different ways. Last night was actually a depressing night for me and the husband, with each of us separately thinking about our future but your assurance is everywhere that I could not help but stand in awe at the glory of Your grace.
In Your time and to God be the glory.
xx,
Corporate Junkie