Well, I am excited to announce that I am through some major steps in the process of becoming a Flight Attendant with Northwest/Delta Airlines.
I got in touch with one of my godly friends, Jessica Cenzer, and asked her some pointed questions about the whole idea. She has been a Flight Attendant for 3 years now and was very helpful! She answered them. I noticed that there was an “Open House” on the internet that I would need to attend. I did on the 5th of this month. There was probably about 80 people at this open house trying out for the positions. I had to speak in front of the group, as we all did, and things went well. They told us that after the break and we came back there would be a list outside the door posted of ones picked for the interview. There were about 12 picked to interview out of 80. I saw my name was on the list! I took this as another sign from the Lord as His direction.
While I was there I was able to meet Tiffany Davis. A girl that I had met before in ministry. She is a really sweet Christian girl. It was so neat for us both to be there together.
The next step! I am looking forward to training that I I hear may be in March. We will be flying out to Memphis, TN for three weeks of intense training. If that goes well I will officially be a Flight Attendant!
As I let people know, I am met with cares, concerns and congratulations. All for which I am thankful! As a lot of concerns have come from those I love I am thankful for … But I want you all to know I have thought about this. I have prayed about this. And prayed about this. And taken godly counsel about this. And prayed about this! I take my relationship with my Lord seriously. I am concerned about my relationship with the Lord as I have always been in any situation. I want it to be strong. I know I have weaknesses and I want to humbly ask the Lord for help daily. I need Him so much.
Last night I was thinking and praying I came across some scripture that I know was from the Lord and gave me confidence in His power to keep me.
Proverbs 2
2:1 My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden [1] woman,
from the adulteress [2] with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed; [3]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
This gave me a peace in my heart as I went to bed last night. I realize there will be things about this job that will take a strong Christian to handle. I know that. But again I want you all to know I HAVE thought about the good AND the BAD. I have faced these thoughts already with my parents and most of all with my Lord. But, l am confident that He will keep in me in the paths He has opened up for me.
Blessings to you all, my friends, and thank you for your sweet notes of encouragement to me about this! Will keep you updated…. thanks for caring.
The little brothers and sisters are already in the Christmas Spirit this year! Talk about it being early. Yeah. Hope is playing the music all the time around the house. She is lighting candles. Today she stuck sticky snowflakes on the window! It DID spit snow today so I guess she felt like it was time. The thing is it’s been getting me into the Christmas Spirit early too! Aah!!! I have this thing that it has to be after Thanksgiving… and that is when I really will begin to allow myself to enjoy Christmas. I have plans to light my Christmas Candle. It smells like pine needles! I love it. I am looking forward to lighting it…. later. I went to Joann Fabrics with Mom the other day and found some of the CUTEST Green and Mulberry colored pillar candles. They have a swirly 3D design on them too and a ribbon tied around them. They were on clearance. So, of course, I got them. I have had a pillar holder in my room I got for 3 dollars last year. I finally filled it!
Yesterday, at church, I noticed while sitting there, that a girl I had been praying for for some time, walked into church. I was happy. I met with her before and she was very much in the grip of the enemy. I just happened to come across her in the hall after church and asked her how she was doing. She said she wanted to ask me a question. She wanted to know how she could be saved. I was so shocked and happy. I showed her how to become a Christian and she wanted to invite Jesus into her heart. I was so happy. God had won a victory in her life. I could see it in her eyes as she left.
That is the 3rd girl I have been able to lead to Jesus in this year! It seems God is bringing girls to me! I hope that He will continue to do so. It’s so happy and fulfilling to know that you can be such a part of God’s plan. Yet knowing it has nothing to do with me!
Yesterday was a good Sunday. It was a full Sunday and when it was time to sleep and slept well! I taught Sunday school and I so enjoy doing that. The little kids that come in are so cute and sweet and I just want to open up their hearts and put a love for Jesus in there! I really, really do. Yet I know God loves them more than I do and He is the one that will do that.
I sang a song and the choir backed me up! That was a neat experience. I really enjoyed that. As I sang the choir seemed to get louder and louder and than at the end of the song I was singing with all my might and they were too behind me .. it was a neat time of worshipping Jesus. I had a good day. Two things I love with all my heart…. singing and Jesus. Put those two together and you have powerful thing. You can hear it here… it was a little different from this one but… this is the song.
It’s so true! We all have the same needs of our hearts… some go to this some got to that to fill it up. But the ones who find Jesus… find it! Praise His Name.
Well, I am off to finish a scarf I am knitting. It’s getting to be the time I really need it!
It seems to often I see those who seem to grow up with such a strong faith in God those who seem to have it all going for them spiritually those who seem to have things going in the right direction completely fall away from the Lord and their walk with Him. They make choices that will literally ruin their lives and they have been WARNED about for ALL of their lives. I rack my mind to figure out how this happens and why and…. to tell you the truth it scares me. I don’t want to be one of those victims of satan’s cruel and vicious attacks.
One night I had some girls I had taken to the Northwoods to disciple and encourage in the Lord. It seemed that satan would show up every time and though he had no power over us in Christ their would be fears of different things… even I would be and I don’t get scared too often. Anyway one night we were out singing to the Lord while we looked up at the stars. Those times were special. Although some of the girls got scared at one point and thinking they heard something in the woods ran inside. The next morning I was talking to the to one of the people in charge of the conference center and she told me “Oh yeah well we do have coyotes who will take a deer and shake it so hard that we will find pieces of the deer in the trees” Let’s just say the girls didn’t want to go back outside after that story.
To me that is what satan wants to do with us as God’s children and he is doing! He doesn’t have you in the end but he wants to ruin your life and your testimony here on earth. He really, really does. I see it happen all the time. I think each of us need to check our pulse spiritually. We really do. Do you have a real, alive relationship with Jesus today? Tonight? Do watch and pray? If you don’t you could so easily be next. Do you have a heart beat - spiritually? It’s scary times and the evil one is out to destroy you. Destroy your very life and he enjoys it. Don’t let him have the joy. Stay close to Jesus… always bring His Name the glory He deserves. God help us.
