Perhaps it is fitting that I haven't written a blog post over the Summer months. Just as the rain has been lacking, I have not been inspired to write these past 6 or so months. But 2 events have happened that seem to be God's way of screaming to get my attention again as though I have been sleeping. Or maybe Satan is trying to show his muscle, and God has provided a way of escape. Maybe it's both. Either way, I am trying to wake up, and see the world through God's eyes in all its crazy beauty.
Let me just tell you what happened in August and September and culminated in October. I have been looking for a job ever since I graduated from Northern Virginia Community College in December of 2012. Well I had an interview about the 3rd week in August at the Holiday Inn in Leesburg, VA for the Hobby Lobby that was scheduled to open in September in Leesburg, VA. At this interview, they hired me right on the spot, which seemed unusual, but I wasn't about to say no after all the looking I had done, and having no luck.
So I started working for Hobby Lobby a week after the interview at the end of August. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting into! I knew the store had to be set up, but I don't believe I have ever worked a more hectic schedule in my life. But miracles do happen, and 3 weeks later, a brand new Hobby Lobby was open, complete with product and everything.
Well, I'm starting to get nervous about my job because they haven't trained me to do anything. Basically all I have learned is how to open the store, now how to keep it going. So I am suspecting that they might want to get rid of me.
About a week after the store opens, I get into a bad car accident. I am on a dirt road driving to my parents house late at night when I look down for a moment, and the next thing I know, I'm running off the road and I hit a tree. It sounds stupid, but it really banged up my car. Well, I am able to still drive the car to my parents house even though I am shook up and the car doesn't look so good. I was completely uninjured.
The next day I had my car towed to a repair shop, and called my insurance. They said aside from my deductible, they would cover the rest of the bill for the repairs on the car.
As it turned out, a week after the accident, my prediction came true, and Hobby Lobby laid me off because they no longer had room for me in the budget. I have other theories as to why they let me got, but I won't go into them right now.
Conveniently enough, the month of work I put in at Hobby Lobby was just about enough to cover the deductible to repair my car with a little extra thrown in. So I have a theory. God knew I was going to have a car accident. He also knew that I couldn't afford the deductible on my disability check. So He provided a job for me through Hobby Lobby just long enough so I could pay the deductible, but not so long I would be miserable. Cool, huh? Oh, and I just got my car back in beautiful condition on October 2nd.
So I can't just look at these events and think it's all coincidence. I believe God has some master plan, He just isn't telling me what it is. Sometimes I think He gives me clues, but then I think I'm going crazy and just having grandiose thoughts. But what if I'm not? What if He is leaving me clues, like bread crumbs? I just have to follow them no matter how absurd it seems to everyone else.
I believe this world is not as it seems. And I believe I have protective spirits or angels all around me to guard against my own foolishness. This car accident is not the first time I have been protected. And its not the first time God has provided for me. So what can I say? God wants to do something with my life. Yet I feel so insignificant. But I feel God is trying to tell me I have immense worth. I can hardly tell you all what I am thinking. I feel you wouldn't believe me if I did, and that you would be mad at me if I did. So right now, I will just keep it to myself. Just more thoughts from the mind of Crystal.
