A Shocking Reality...............

 Now, the Reality of Philip being officially Unemployed was beginning to set in.  Wow, this was something we sure never expected to face, especially at our Age! Only 5 years away from retiring. If only he could retire early, we thought.  He definitely had enough years in with the Railroad, but unfortunately he wasn't old enough.  He needed to be 60 years old to get Retirement benefits and........he's only 55!

So we just had to dismiss that thought and move on to the next step.  That step being......Philip applying for Unemployment Benefits.  We found out that the amount of money he would receive monthly would be about one half of what he normally brought home from his Salary  when he was working.  As Shocking as this was to us, we were thankful he would at least get that. But we are just like any other family with Bills in our Budget in accordance to his monthly salary and now, to think that half of it is gone~that is Very Scary to say the least!  

How will we make it, we thought?  How will we be able to pay our Bills with only half of the money we normally had?  We didn't know how, but we knew that God did and we knew that there was Nothing too hard for HIM to do!

"Ah Lord God? behold thou has made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is Nothing too hard for thee." Jeremiah 32:17
What an encouraging scripture to be reminded of from God's Word just at the time we needed it!

When you think about the fact that God took 2 Fish & 5 Loaves of Bread, multiplied them and fed over 5,000 people, you KNOW that he can supply our needs!

I watched Philip daily search for Jobs.  With his qualifications and job skills, most of the jobs he applied for were on the Internet.  He would spend hours daily searching and filling out applications.  Of course, we would purchase Sunday papers and checked the Classifieds, but that always turned up Nothing! We also had Family & Friends at Church keeping their eyes and ears open too. 

As he continued to Search, we continued to pray asking God to please let someone from one of these companies be interested in his qualifications and call.
So many thoughts would go through our heads daily about what the future held for us. We just couldn't help but believe though that somewhere there must be a company that would be happy to get someone with his 35 years experience and offer him a Job or..... was there another plan God had for us?