Who Packs Your Parachute

Isn't this basket of flowers so pretty? AJ got them for me last week. I really like them. 

Today as I am going very slowly around the house trying to get a little bit at a time done without feeling nauseous or dizzy from this weird bug I've got, I've been thinking about my situation. Where I'm at and what I would share. 

It feels like lately that my emotions have truly gotten a grip on me. I don't know if it's because of my birth control or how I'm eating or even if it's just a season I am going through. It's hard to tell. Either way I have felt like I have been tossed back and forth in waves of hormones and circumstances. 

I sat back for a moment today though thinking about what I wanted to post and I realized, even though I have a lot I want and need to do around the house, ultimately, everything has actually truly calmed down. I feel like, since we got married, life just hasn't stopped for anything and I was waiting for that time where we really felt like we had the time to make plans with others and at the beginning of the week say "Wow, what do you wanna do this weekend?" At his point in life we're there! Praise God...I am so thankful.

    Work really stumps me. 

I, like probably most people, don't like to work. Just like when I was in school I didn't like school. But the reality of it is not that I didn't like learning or that I don't like my job, it's the time it takes away from things I'd rather be doing. Or rather, just the fact that it's a set time in general. 

But the thing that would make work even harder right now, would be if it wasn't fun or if I didn't like it at all. 

I am SO thankful and praise the Lord tremendously that it IS fun and I DO like it. And not only that, but the company I work for is biblically based, my boss is a Christian and I work with really great people. 

For those of you who might not know, I started working at the Chick-Fil-A on Bristol and MacArthur in June of last year. AJ and I had been regulars and gone there every week to eat their delicious chicken and grew to love this godly man who worked there along with a few others there. We could tell it was a great company but also could tell that it was probably a one in a million chance to work there. 

One day on Facebook the store let their fans know that they were having group interviews. My husband very persistently encouraged me to go and so I went. There were few of us there and I got a phone call soon after from the owner/operator, Tammy, who interviewed us, letting me know she would like me to be apart of her family at CFA! I was so beyond honored and when I sat in orientation with the only other girl hired I don't think SHE even really understood what a privilege we had (and it was her first job!). 

It has been a long learning process, with great friendships formed and through some great trials but I have stuck through and there are few days that I don't enjoy my job. Now 10 months later I am moving to a new store that I have watched the process of being built day by day as I drive by it going out or coming home from the 405 freeway on Harbor. 

About 3 blocks away is the new CFA store on Harbor and Gisler and Tammy let us know a few months ago that that was gonna be hers. Most of us decided to go with her and last night was the dedication dinner and on Thursday it will open!

The dinner was incredible. Till the very last minute I was contemplating whether or not I could make it since I had been feeling terrible the entire day. But AJ and I thought it would be good for me to at least try and go if I felt bad we could come home (it was close by at the country club). I am so incredibly glad I went! And I felt God answered my prayers by pushing me to go. 

It consisted of salad, lasagna and cupcakes but that wasn't even the good stuff. They dedicated the store the LORD! There was prayer and speeches and we got to hear of the impact this fast food restaurant has made.  I had to hold back so many tears as I was so full of joy at how glorified God was. 

Then toward the end they called all of us who work for Tammy individually by name and she gave us these batons and just made it really real. 

But the coolest part was right before that when she told us a story she had heard about a famous pilot in the Vietnam war who had saved many many people and had met many people and that at one point a man came up to him SO excited to see him and he told him it was great to see him a again, the pilot felt so bad and said "I'm sorry I don't remember who you are." and the man told him, "I was the one who packed your parachute every time."

Tammy then went on to say that she's had a lot of people pack her parachute along the way to get where she has gotten and she gave us these dog tags to remind us. It was so great.

This is Tammy, my awesome boss. =) She makes me realize how much God truly gifts people to be "do"ers.  I want to be one...but I think I've got a ways to go. I think I am more of an appreciator than a doer.

Anyways. It was a great night. I was super blessed. Just wanted to share.


On a completely random note...we have squirrels in our apartment complex. I finally caught one on camera! Woot!