Please pray

I found out Friday that the bank I work for has been sold. We have been fighting this final demise for a little over a year now and unfortunately we have lost. While on one hand it is a relief to finaly have an answer to the unknown question of whether we were going to make it through these tough times. It is still extremely saddening and dissapointing at the same time. I have been there for a little over 8 years now and have been a part of many changes and consolidations and have seen us take over other banks. As of right now, I do not know how long I will have a job. I know that the deal does not close until the end of the year but from there I don't know. I know that God has a plan for me and my family. I just need to continue to trust and have faith that even though we may come out of this a little scarred and maybe even battered, God is still here and is going to see us through.
I pray for all of the employees of the bank as we prepare for the transition. I pray that we will be able to put brave faces on as we interact with each other and our customers. I pray that you will give us strength to go into work with a chearful heart everyday knowing that it may be our last day there. I pray that the job loss will be minimal and those who lose their jobs will be able to recover quickly and find new jobs. Lord, please give us all peace and forgiveness in our hearts.

There is nothing too large for God to handle and God won't give us anything that we cannot handle.

The other day I was listening to the radio and they were talking about lawyers, specifically female lawyers. I thought it was funny because they were saying that mothers, along with their other job titles they carry throughout the day, they are detectives, lawyers, judges, and jury all rolled into one. They have to determine which child is the one they will represent, by being the jury first and listening to both sides of the story. Then they have to act as the judge to determine final judgment. Well, just yesterday I had the pleasure of being all four in regards to a broken tv. Yes, my middle child, Andrew, came in to me all frantic saying that Sam, the youngest, had tipped the tv over. I ran into the living room and sure enough, there was the tv,, face down on the floor. Of course, as the detective, I had to do the questioning to start the investigation. I asked Andrew where he was at the time of the accident, he was in the kitchen getting a drink and then he heard a bump, he ran into the living room and saw that Sam had knocked the tv off the stand. I looked at Sam and asked if he had knocked the tv down. He looked at me with his big brown eyes and said “I knock tv down”. At this point I had to be the lawyer and tell Andrew that I will represent him because I felt he was innocent, in the case of the tv. So due to the substantial evidence, I decided that there was no need for the jury and went directly to the judge. As the judge, I sentenced Sam to his bed until I said he could get up, he took a good two hour nap that day:)