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So you’ve probably heard the I remember one time in be no light at the end of my supervisor pulled me
expression that tells you, “bloom particular, in 2015, this tunnel and I felt into her office. She said,
where you’re planted.” While the when I was working for completely hopeless that “We need an assistant for
phrase is based on scripture (1 a staffing agency and anything would change. our trainer since we have
Corinthians 7:20-24) it still is a was placed in a job a new wave of agents
catchy little quip, but unless within a call center. As I drove home in the rain coming in to train. We’d
you’re planted somewhere As an introvert who one night and the water like you to assist her, if
comfortable, it can feel like a tall loathes speaking on poured down around me, I you’d like.” She went on to
order. the phone, this was found myself sobbing. I explain that this would get
definitely not an ideal started talking to God me off the call center floor
job for me. While I was through my tears, asking Him for at least two weeks. I
commended on the WHY He wasn’t helping me; started to ask why, since I
The thing is, there have probably job I was doing, I left why was He not changing was so new, but she
been times in your life where you work every night my circumstance? I reassured me and said I
just wished you could don some drained and just unleashed a barrage of was the only person they
ruby slippers and click your heels ready to drop. I cry-questions ranging from were considering for the
the magic number of times and called the staffing why did He let my ex leave job because I had
change your circumstance. Ah, agency looking for all the way to why would He excelled since I came into
what a colorful result that could another job, and even not GET ME OUT of this training. I accepted,
bring (just ask Dorothy). But life spoke to my supervisor awful job? It was one of my started training a new
doesn’t always imitate art when it at the company I was most gut-wrenching, no- crew of agents, and had
comes to being able to change placed with, telling her holding-back, cries of THE best time at work
your state so quickly. So when I just couldn’t do this despair to my Father I’d during that time..
God puts us in a position that job anymore. ever had. As my sobs (and
isn’t where we’d prefer to be, what words) finally ran out, His
are we to do? peace washed over me.
But that’s not where His
I can think back to many times in But no matter what I I quietly said, “I don’t know grace and blessings
my life where I was most definitely tried, there were no why I’m in this place, but I ended in this season.
NOT comfortable. The past 8 other jobs available will trust YOUR plan for me. I Being in this role at the
years alone felt like I might just within the staffing know You are with me, and I call center, my name
have been planted in the desert agency that fit my will prosper where You have started bouncing around
— a surprise divorce, an abrupt particular skill set. I me planted.” with supervisors, and I was
end to my education, having to was not getting being interviewed for a
move out of my new house into a callbacks from jobs I I went home and slept for permanent supervisory role
small apartment, and enduring a applied for on my the first night in many. I got in that department. Then,
very long season that just felt own. There seemed to up the next morning and suddenly I got another
hard. went to the call center and

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