Blessed Be...

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

As we were singing this in church today (Thank you Leah and Anna) the words were made new to me. I have sung this song countless times before and never was impacted the way I was today. After a long time in the desert and a long trip on the road marked with suffering I realized that I, for the most part, am a fair weather Christian. When my life is good I can praise everyday and truly mean it, but as soon as life got hard and everything was taken away from me I lost my ability to praise him. And it struck me today as we were singing this song (and I don't want this to sound bad or be taken the wrong way because I truly do praise him for this) that he left me in that desert and on that road for so long because of my inability to praise him during that time. I have no doubt in my mind that if I had turned the blessings that he did given me during that time back into praise he would have rescued me sooner. He wanted me to learn that even when I am at my lowest, when I feel that I have nothing and that I am all alone, He still pours out many blessings that I choose to ignore or am to selfish to realize. And as I stood there singing that song I realized that He is truly worthy of praise in the good times and the bad because he never stops blessing us. And the very least we could do is praise him for that. So to rap things up I just want to say that in this time between suffering and plenty, I will praise the name of the LORD. I will turn the blessings that he has given me back into praise.

The Old 9 to 5... Well 10 to 6:30...

So I started my job and I have been here for a month today. And I like it, it has its frustrations but I still like it. I work for a company called W.S. Live, which is a call center type business. They offer a certain number of agents to a client that needs call center type services. The program that I am on is the Intuit QuickBooks ProAdvisor. I am ProAdvisor Customer service. I walk people through the website, change their account information for them and help them with their certification on the website. It is a good job and I am apparently doing a good job at it. So even if i stay here or go somewhere else it is going to be a great experience for my professional life. So thank you all for your prayers.