One major example of ADONAI’s "side-tracking" me from my goals was back in 1997, when I was Associate Editor of the Colorado Springs Business Journal. I had my eye set on becoming Editor one day, because I was more than qualified.
I had been a school-trained military photo-journalist, newspaper and magazine editor for 22 years, with various other kinds of schooling and experience under my belt, and so I felt certain that I was a “shoo-in.”
I was new to Colorado at the time, having just moved there from Springfield, Missouri where I lived after my retirement from the Army in 1993. Nothing ever really “felt right” in Missouri, and I had floundered around as a free-lance journalist for a while, selling human interest stories to magazines while working part-time at a television station; before finally ending up at the Webster County Citizen, in Seymour, as a feature article writer and ad compositor/designer.
Looking back, of course, I can see that God’s Hand had guided me to Seymour, because that is where I “got saved” in a little Baptist church – after which I literally felt God urging me (for six months or more!) to move to Colorado.
When I finally complied, I ultimately ended up working at the Colorado Springs Business Journal – a job I loved – feeling that God had placed me here to become the editor one day.
And so, here I was, CERTAIN that I would be selected to replace the current editor upon her retirement!
But I wasn’t…
Instead, my bosses had hired a 22-year old college grad with ZERO experience! To say I was bewildered and devastated would have been an understatement. More to the point, I was ANGRY … really, really LIVID!
As a middle-aged woman with tons of schooling and experience, I wasn’t about to have some carnal, foul-mouthed, smart-alecky KID as my boss; and so, as a new Christian (only a couple of years into my faith at the time), I started praying about what I should do.
Well, God obviously heard me, because that following Sunday, I “happened” to sit next to a man at Assemblies of God church I was attending back then, who told me about a position available with the company where he worked. It wouldn’t be in the field of journalism, but I had all the “right qualifications” – and so I quit my job at the Business Journal and started working for a contractor to the United States Space Command.
Honestly, I hated my new job, but – bottom line was – our amazing ELOHIM gave me TWO miracles there: (1) I met a man who introduced me to Messianic Judaism – which would forever change my faith and my life; and (2) I met my future husband, Lt. Col. Bill Welker (retired), who helped me to create and become my co-host of a website in 2001 that we decided to call The Refiner’s Fire. (Please see our website’s ABOUT US page)
Coincidence? I think not! YHWH is in charge; and, although sometimes we wonder what in the world He’s doing, the bottom line is, He WILL ALWAYS lead HIS people into where HE needs us to be! All we have to do is to “let go” and stop trying to be “in control” whenever we realize things aren’t exactly going according to OUR will…
PSALM 46:10-12: Be still and know that I am Adonai-Tzva’ot…
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