Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend – and when I say a friend, I mean one that I’ve known for 32 years (I’m 33). He got a new Job, but not just a new job, it’s a DREAM job. As long as I’ve known him he has been into airplanes. He went to school to be an aircraft mechanic, and worked in a shop in Cincinnati repairing airplanes installing avionics, etc.
He loves to restore old airplanes, and for a while worked for an independent outfit in Goshen on the weekends restoring vintage aircraft including this fun one.
There’s a fun little article here about the Heddon Minnow plane. He eventually got a job at the Tri-State Warbird Museum restoring vintage warbirds.
He and his wife wanted children and God allowed that to happen. His wife was an art teacher and wanted to stay home with the new baby boy, so that’s what she did. Anybody out there trying to make it happen on one income?? Long story even longer, They are making it, but not really getting ahead and there were job opportunities that he was seeking, for jobs that he really wasn’t passionate about, but you have to pay the bills, right?? So he kept pursuing jobs to no avail.
Ok, here’s the really cool part of the story. My friend and I used to go to the USAF Museum and just be in awe and wonder at all of the vintage warbirds. Recently he applied for a job there in their restoration shop and after going through some hoops, God in his mercy and grace allowed him to have the job. He’ll be on their restoration and display team, making more money, working fewer hours, have a more flexible schedule, with more time at home with his family.
The comment he made to me was it really made him realize how much God loves him. Chad is like you or I. His life hasn’t been easy – his first wife walked out on him, his church crapped on him when that happened and he was ostracized because he was divorced. Yet through all of this he has realized the depth of God’s love for him.
Ok, my encouragement is this – Have these conversations with those around you. Have them with those you love, have them with those you don’t even know. The stories that we tell have an unseen power behind them because they tell the story of our intersection with our Creator, and his son Jesus. They tell about why we are different, and how we have been changed for the better.
What’s your story??
Peace~Love,
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Esther Jones said,
June 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I love this story – and I love this blog. I’m SO happy for Chad. I too have a story…….waiting for the ending, but I know that God is changing me and my life for the better. Sometimes we forget what God is doing for us.
Lorie Cockman said,
September 29, 2008 at 1:23 am
I too love this story! This is my little brother and it is so awesome to see what God has done for him! He has been faithful to God and God has kept His promises!!!! Every time we get together with Chad and his family I am able to see complete happiness. To see him interact with his son and wife…to see the love God has blessed them with…well, I’m in awe. God took complete heartbreak and and gave a love so new and perfect to a couple who at some time weren’t sure they would ever get to experience such a love. What a God we serve! I’m so thankful to Him for all He has done for Chad. He does hear are prayers and He does bless them who honor Him, we just need to wait on His timing. God is there with us even when we may not be too sure of that. We have a God who keeps His promises all the time!!!