A Modern Day Job?

So I have had a long 10 days since my last post.  I think I am going to try and start making these more regular... So Tuesdays and Thursdays and occasional weekends?  Sounds like a custody battle and why am I asking you? Come back on those days and if there is a new post enjoy. If not, well I must have had busy day.

I keep rereading my title and wondering if it is right. It feels a bit arrogant calling oneself "A Modern Day Job". I realize that he was fully a man of God, no one could have refuted that, and that I am not that man. I also see the play on words of Job (the biblical character) and Job (the 9-5 thing most people dread).  But these are kind of intertwined for me.  I have been having an interesting 4 months.  I feel like there has been a lot of bumps along the road. I keep thinking that I am going to really start making progress for one thing and then find out that something happened and now I have to take a step back.  To do a quick summary of what I am referring to, I hurt my hip and likely have to have surgery (no sports),  I was sick for a month and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong (hard to do my job properly), My family is going through hard times (Emmaus, my 17month old niece had brain surgery a week ago).  I don't quite know how to take this really.  I am a patient man, so I am fine with waiting and hoping that it passes.  But it has been 4 months, and I feel like things are just piling on.  So what to do?  This is when I started thinking about patterns and such.  It appears that in the last year and a half I have had a plethora of blessings bestowed upon me.  I became an uncle.  This fills me with pride when I think about it even if the stinker cries every time she sees me though we are slowing making progress with that (see below).

 I got voted First Team All Region in Ultimate and on the club team I was playing for really became a key point in the offense.  I won an "Outstanding Young Investigator" award at a prestigious conference for my research in genetics.  And with all of the various things that have happened, each one of these have become tainted in some form or another.  This came to my mind which was interesting because I haven't read the book of Job in some time.

"Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has,and he will surely curse you to your face..... Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger"

So back to the question, What to do?  I ask for more patience and perseverance. I ask for loving hands of those who are close to me or those who care, to wrap themselves around me until this time passes. For surely this too shall pass.

I would like to say that there have been a few who have come to my aid and when I was at low points whether they knew it or not have bent down on their knees and truly held me up. To those few people, I suppose it is appropriate due to the day being Thanksgiving, from the depths of my heart, Thank you.


One Day,

C. Fletcher