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Going through my external drive I found some interviews I did with a lovely musician in 2018 that I got to appreciate since a 2014 solo performance we saw him at the Roxy Theatre. We covered wonderful topics. They look and sounded great.
Here’s one clip from that interview
For a year and a half , I tried to find my dream job since immigrating to Canada.
Exhausted one day I checked my spam folder to clean it up and saw an email. It was about a job interview for the next day.
I was interviewed and then offered two weeks of training to see if I was a fit with the team or not…
Now it’s week 3 and I have my own key for the office 🔑! Yes. It is my dream Key and I want to take care of her.
Super helpful CRA help agent. She was so patient, and loved helping people with the website. It reminded her of helping her mother. She didn’t say ‘This can’t be done’, but adjusted midstream and worked around obstacles.
I internalized her tips, and have used them again and again.
Ready for authentic sharing
Talking to a grocery store employee. She was so happy, full of life, and helpful. She told me she’s lost 4kg since she started working there. She loves being active at work, and gave great service.
Heard on a rainy, dark evening recently – an odd rushing sound. The furnace? Maybe. Settled down on the sofa with a book.
Moments later, my husband, gone to put the car into the garage under our house, blasts in to say that our water service line, the one providing H2O to our house from the municipality, has burst. What seems like the entire water supply of Oak Bay is cascading up from a hole in our driveway, and off down the street. Make no mistake, this is a MASSIVE amount of water, which will flow at this rate until shut off by us or by the authorities. Who have gone home by now. Heavy sigh.
Now, this has happened before, and while we have to tool to reach down into the mechanics of the hole containing the shutoff valves ( a long crowbar with a forked tip) – it’s now dark, and the foaming, muddy water has filled the hole to the brim and then some. Try as he might, my husband cannot manage to engage the mechanism and stop the flow. And nowhere on the municipal website can we see whom to call about this emergency after hours.
He works on in the dark. I sit back down on the sofa, turn out the lights and … pray.
What springs to mind is a quote from the textbook of Christian Science practice, to the effect that students of Christian Science can “keep crime in check” with the correct practice of their religion. Huh? I scratch my head. No crime has gone on here. What is the connection? I look up the word crime and find that one definition is, the violation of law.
Aha. To my mind, what pertains here is the law of God, no matter how things look to material sense. “God’s law is in three words – ‘I am All’” (from the same book, by Mary Baker Eddy).
Now, God’s law expresses Principle (a synonym of God) and that principle is 100% harmonious. This disruption is in no way harmonious: it’s wasteful, frightening, and expensive on more than one level. Therefore unreal and thus NOT TO BE FEARED. After all, the same book reminds us that “Christ’s keynote of harmony” is Fear NOT.
Yup, the Big Guy said “Fear NOT”. He did not say not to fear most things, or fear nothing but this…. Okay.
I can do that.
As I pondered my assignment, and simultaneously rang the local Fire Department for suggestions, my husband hurried back in. He had successfully shut off the water. That had seemed like an impossibility not two minutes before.
After that, the little stuff started to fall into place: friendly fireman offers to contact municipal authorities. A bottle of distilled water kept for a hobby allows us to brush teeth and give the dog a drink. Our basement sump pump yields enough buckets of water to manually flush toilets. Our own plumber moved away last week… but at the butcher shop I just picked up a card for a local plumber who wants clients – he is home and agrees to set aside his tomorrow’s tasks to come fix the breakage. Which he does.
Thank you, God. The next emergency will be more quickly responded to without fear. Fear does not work. Trusting God does.
Supporting a new team member
Rich Times!
Another organization offered me a job since I started this on, but the level of care and support shown me, shows I’m in my right place.