The woods of clifton…
So I haven’t been in the mood or really wanting to write anything lately. I feel like all the creative juice has just been sucked out of me. If you weren’t aware I actually have a job now. Well its a job in the fact that they pay me for being there. I took the night auditor position at Forest Park Suites. If you can’t tell i’m not the least bit excited about this except for the fact that i will actually be bringing some income in.
I had so many dreams, desires, and ambitions. They all seemed to fly out the window when i started working here. This is not what i had in mind at all and well it has sunk me into a reality that i never saw coming. I would venture to say that i am depressed. Well as depressed as my personality will let me be. There is nothing happy about this job, but I am trying to learn the joy that this job can offer me. I know God has to be using this situation in my life for something, I guess i was hoping that i was past this learning phase of my life.
I was hoping that I would be doing something that I found meaningful. I know that I do many meaningful things through young life and sharing my life with others but I just wanted my job to also have a greater purpose than just taking people’s money and printing useless reports.
I don’t know what more to say, I’m tired of saying it. Just pray for me that God gives me peace with this job or leads me to something new.
So a few weeks ago I was asked by our great YL staff to create a video that could explain what Young Life looks like in our area that we could show at our banquet. I knew this task would be big and fun so i decided to it. I am convienced that this video is one of the reasons i have been unemployed for so long now. God wanted me to work on things like this.
Anyways I really impressed myself with this one and I am super excited to share this with you.
Young Life is… from C. Randall Waters on Vimeo.
26-28Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
So I feel like I’m stuck in pit of quick sand. The more I try the more it feels like I’m seeking. I got no help in sight. I can’t get a job anywhere. At this point I applied for over 110 different positions and have only had two interviews which have gone no where. I have given up on going for jobs that I want and have applied for anything that seems to be feasible. I’m not asking for much, just an entry level salary and decent hours.
I guess a bachelors degree just doesn’t cut it anymore. I am either not qualified for the position or I look over qualified. I can’t seem to get a call back on a stupid retail job. Needless to say I am beginning to get very discouraged and losing any bit of motivation I have.
One positive thing I am trying to get out of this is how I am defining myself. I see that in most peoples lives today the define themselves essentially on the jobs they have. Ask somebody who they are and most of the time they would reply with well I’m so and so I work for blah. I want to say, I’m Randy and I live for Christ. Christ is the only hope that I have right now. I have faith that he will provide me with any needs I have.
Zondervan is putting together a new version of the NIV bible. It will be a hand written version, and some of the writing can be done by you. They have put together a cross country trip in an RV stopping through many cities and letting people contribute by writing a verse in the new bible.
On Friday October, 3rd they will be in Cincinnati, OH at the Berean Christian Store 1183 Smiley Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45240, from 10am to 6pm.
I plan on going to put my mark in this new bible. I hope you have the opportunity too.
Well for awhile now I have been wanting to get a site together that would be for all the people I know involved in youth ministry. It would contain encouragement, ideas, help, and so on. Its been slow coming but i’m starting to get the blog portion up and going now. You can find it here http://theclubroom.wordpress.com/. Hopefully soon it will be at theclubroom.net but like I said its slow coming. I have some post up there already with game ideas and other stuff so stop on by and check it out.
My last post is about success. Read it here.
This week at club we had pizza olympics. To help introduce and sell the pizza olympics we showed the students what we did this summer at the olympics.
Check this out.
