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Please pray for me. I've recently turned 49 and have not had a job promotion in six years. It's not that I have no motivation, but that my mind always wanders and I daydream too much. I've been diagnosed with a mild depression and am currently trying medications to see if the antidepressants will help with is likely adult ADD (my older son was diagnosed at 9-10 years old and I've always been known as a day-dreamer. Is this a cross that God has given me ? I often wonder if it's His will that I not be all that successful to keep me humble.

I may not post many replies to the Prayer forum, but please know that your prayer intentions are in my heart and I offer them to Our Lord.

Blessings in our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ !

Sam

P.S. - Also, if this kind of prayer is not a foolish test of God and is His will, pray that my family and I may one day return to Alaska

Prayers, Sam!

Gaudior, who knows one does not have to post to pray

Sam:

You are already a success in God's eyes. He made you and he does not make junk!!!

If you have hit a plateau in your career does that mean He loves you less? Do you have enough to eat, roof that doesn't leak, enough for your children and spouse?

I have, twice in my life, been out of work for prolonged periods of time through no fault of my own and had to retrain or redefine my way of making a living. It has given me time to reflect on what is important. I found that the two most important things in my life that no one can take away from me unless I let them are my faith relationship with Jesus Christ and my good name. All the rest can come and go. The most interesting part of complete surrender and complete trust in Him is that each time I thought He had abandoned me there was something dramatic that happened to let me know "hey, Bob, I'm still here with you."

A cross HE has given you? Perhaps. If so, embrace it and kiss it. He lets these things happen to those He loves so that we will turn back to Him again and again, building trust in him and not in our own abilities, talents, and efforts. (The reason most of us shrink from embracing and kissing our cross is that we fear a load of slivers in the lips.)

My prayers are with you. And may I suggest something someone once asked me to do so that I would be grateful in this type of thing? Remember in your prayers those who are your age and have been downsized out of their jobs or had their plants closed and jobs sent to China or simply had to retire on disability and who thereby suffer financially.

BOB

Thanks for your prayers and for your words of comfort, Gaudior and Theophan.

With my prayers for your intentions and for those of all on this wonderful Forum!

Sam

Sam, may the descent of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit of Truth, guide you, heal you, and give you the wisdom, courage, and patience to discern God's will and carry you through these difficulties. I myself haven't had a promotion for ten years come next October, so I can completely relate to your frustration.

AMEN!

I can confirm the job situation and it is different for all of us.

As for Fr. Deacon Stan it was slightly different approach. He managed an industrial electroics firm, was up and mobile, all over the Ohio Valley working, he absolutely hated it. So after talking about it and praying we decided for him to quit, and we turned in all the perks that went with it. So he was totally abandoned to God for what he was to do, there was no bird in the hand. God is so funny sometimes! The post office transfered me to Alabama, he went to work for the post office after the transfer, I was injured and back home with the kids, and he is still working. Go figure!

The bottom line is to truly praise God for all situations. He put me back home with my children and we survived. Our life sure did change, but Fr. Dn. Stan would never be able to serve the church the way he does if he had been in management like he was. We could have never dreamed we would be serving at St Georges Melkite Church in Birmingham AL instead of ST. Josephs Ruthenian Church in Toronto OH.

ONLY GOD KNOWS FOR SURE WHAT HE WANTS OF OUR LIVES AND HE INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE!!

Pani Rose