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Its Me Again, God 8-31-11

8/31/2011

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Can I just get a burning bush, please?
New section feature where I pose my questions, grievances and thoughts about God.

After passionately pursuing a career in psychological counseling, all of the sudden I didn’t want one anymore. Well, maybe not all of the sudden. It happened gradually over the 3 years I was in graduate school. Anyhow, I haven’t quite figured out what to do next or what employment opportunities to seek. I’ve so far sought out career counseling positions (to make use of my degree without going into traditional therapy) and media opportunities (since I like writing so much, maybe I’ll try my hand at being a journalist). It’s been 4 months and I still haven’t found a job. Either the agency isn’t hiring, hired someone else, or they want someone with qualifications I don’t have. I’m frustrated and stressed to say the least. Meanwhile, my classmates who have stayed the course with counseling have found work. I suppose if I hadn’t lost my desire to be a therapist, I’d have a job. Which brings me to today’s grievance with God.

By the end of my graduate program, my instincts were telling me NOT to counsel. Every fiber of my being was against it. Even my professor and therapist suggested that it might not be a great time for me to be a therapist. I took all of these things as a sign that I needed to go in a different direction. I really feel like God steered me away from counseling for a reason. There’s some point to this drastic change in my life; I just wish I knew what the heck it was. If I’m not supposed to be a counselor right now, what am I supposed to be doing and how do I achieve it? What’s the answer? Trying to discover the answer has been rough and covered in ambiguity and uncertainty. Meanwhile, I’m unemployed. Guess I have to bus tables until something better and befitting of my college education and hard work arrives. Really not fair, God. You shifted me out of something I actually loved, borrowed $80,000 worth of educational loans to support and had a clean-cut, easy path to so I could bus tables? So I could be chronically confused about what to do next? Really? That doesn’t make sense. Maybe my life WOULDN’T be easier if I had become a therapist, and maybe all of this stress will be worth it in the long run, but right now…it is so not the business. 

1 Comment
Crystal W.
8/31/2011 02:05:19 pm

Whether you one day become a therapist or not, those classes will DEFINITELY be worthwhile. When disasters come in your own life or your friends and family need advice, you'll know more about what to say than you did before.

Maybe not getting a solid job in therapy is a blessing. Who knows, you might have gotten out there and realized you didn't want to hear about people's problems all day every day.

Things happen for a reason. Some of it is based on our own good/bad decisions, but some of it is meant to be. What you've got to do is use it as a building block instead of a rock to trip over. Regardless of what happens with your career, you can say that you've got a psych degree. They'll know you understand people (at least more than the average Joe).

Examples of God's will, not ours:
1) I was only able to enroll in time for one class in the fall. I was upset about it putting me even farther behind in getting my degree, but God knew I needed time to plan my wedding and to de-stress from everything going on with my parents.
2) Michael failed the English class and a couple of other classes at the junior college. His dad and grandparents called him lazy. His trouble with college prompted him to join the military, and he got a steady job he loves without needing a college degree.

God knows what he's doing. It just makes us upset sometimes when we can't see the big picture to understand it.

"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious are your thoughts toward me, oh God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you."-Psalm 139:16-18

"'Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear...For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.'"-Matthew 6:25,32-33

"'Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 'Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!'"-Matthew 7:7-11

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"-Jeremiah 29:11

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