Fasting and Prayer

As most of my five readers know, dear hubby is currently job hunting for next year. At the end of the last school year, he had a person he worked with (who was also leaving for many of the same reasons he did) tell him that she already had a job lined up and that if he was interested, she'd be happy to hire him. Now...understand that she is a counselor, not a principal, but apparently she has some pull in her new district.

It's been a busy, busy summer. Two weeks of cub camp, a week of scout camp and now a week of High Adventure scout camp followed by a week of EFY. Richard has been involved in both scout camps. Needless to say, not a whole lot in the realm of job-finding has been done.

Yesterday was Fast Sunday. I will admit here that I'm a terrible faster. I just have never gained a real testimony of fasting and I don't like being hungry. I get irritable and sometimes shaky--which makes for a not very nice mom/primary teacher/organist/whatever I'm subbing for that day. I often forget that it's Fast Sunday, and even when I remember I often talk myself out of fasting.

But yesterday was different. I decided that I had a purpose--two purposes actually. Richard's job and my dad's eyesight. So, I fasted. I didn't fast the full two meals and I had a Diet Coke in the morning, but I did my version of a fast. I figure it's a start--baby steps, right?

Heavenly Father recognizes and rewards baby steps. Last evening, Richard checked his email. He'd gotten an email from the assistant principal of the counselor's new school. She said that she had his resume, there is a math opening and she would like him to fill out the online application and call on Monday for an interview with the principal. YAY! There's only one glitch (well, two).

The glitch in the interview process is that the email said that the principal would be there Monday and Tuesday (today and tomorrow). Richard is at another scout camp this week--through Wednesday anyway. But that's a positive thing, right? "I'm very interested in the high school math position, but can we schedule an interview after Wednesday? I'm in my second week of supervising boy scouts at camp."

The second glitch is that the district is south of Dallas. For those that don't know the area, it would be a one-way drive of at *least* an hour. But...that may have a solution in the future. (No...we're NOT moving.)

So, I've come to two conclusions today. 1) Fasting works--even when done in baby steps and maybe not quite "correctly." 2) Heavenly Father rewards us when we even just make the attempt to keep his commandments. I don't know why we're having this particular trial at this particular time, but I do know that it's for a reason. I didn't know that for sure at first, but I do now. There is a purpose in this and we'll be able to see it soon. This I know.