Momscalling, I'm lifting up your situation to Our Lady of Good Success! Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
MC please hang in there and continue to pray. I'll post more early next week when I have time, but for now I have time to say hang in there!! God has a plan for you!!
Thanks everyone...in little bits it comes. The principal did decide to take a job offer for me to the board, but not exactly the one we talked about at first. But it will satasfy the needs of the University program. However we are not done.......the board meeting is tomorrow night!!! It could still all fall apart. BUT in the meantime I completed the online class and I talked with the professor at EIU and I was allowed to start, so I am actually HERE now at the University starting the classes. However, I am not actually enrolled in them! Everyone is really bending and trying to do everything they can for me, but it all depends on the people on the little school board in the little town of Orangeville IL now!!! The trouble is, and I did not know this before, they eliminated TWO full time teaching positions this spring, and now he is trying to add a position for me back in. So, he is making it only a teacher's aide position and then one technology class to fulfill my internship teaching requirement for this program. He isn't confident that the board will go for it. He feels the chances are 50/50. So, please, pray one more time for the Holy Spirit to descend upon the people in that room tomorrow night and lighten their hearts and accept the aide proposal he is making...otherwise, I will have to leave here, and I soooo want to stay and become a teacher! Thank you all, for your prayers. I know...we all know, how powerful they are. I am so desperate I even asked my agnostic x-husband to pray for me!!! Or at least throw a penny in a wishing well or something! flook
HEY EVERYONE!!! Thank you for your prayers!!! It looks like Jesus finally got tired of all the bombardment! BUT IT IS NOT THE OUTCOME I EXPECTED! Actually, it is BETTER! Not moneywise, but spiritually. This is perhaps the most amazing miracle for me to date so far, at least in ones I have recognized (well, except for the healing of my first grandson's head (the fused bones). I still think that was not a misdiagnosis, I think a miracle happened between doctor examinations.) Anyway, here's what happened today: The school board meeting for the rural school in Orangeville was held on Tuesday night. As of today noon I still had not received word. I got in my car on our school lunchbreak (remember, I am at the University now). I drove a bit, to muster up the courage to call him. I saw what looked like a chapel on campus, and decided to park in a lot by it for "good luck". Turns out I was actually parked in the lot for the Newman Center, which is the campus center for Catholic students. I did not learn this until several hours later though...just a fun sidenote. So I called and I talked to him. It turns out that he didn't even present the position creation for a vote. He said he just couldn't do it at this meeting, it would have to wait until a future meeting. There were just too many financial problems and he could not justify bringing this new position up now...my heart sank. Long story short, after a lot of excuses and a lot of me trying not to get angry about it or to cry, I told him that if they would let me I still might continue the program and I would keep in touch with him. Perhaps it would work out at the end of the summer. But seriously, I didn't feel that at all. So then, with a gloom you could cut with a knife, I went to see the head of the EIU program to plead my case with him and find out if there was any hope of continuing in the program. He was sympathetic and actually said he would not force me to leave, but realistically it would not be very logical for me to stay. These courses are designed specifically for this special alternative program for industry professionals, and no college, including this one, would accept them in leau of standard courses in a traditional teaching program. So I would be wasting a lot of money if I could not get a teaching position by this August. Well, I asked for a day or two to think, and besides I did have a couple of resumes out that I had not heard back from. Also, the superintendant of the Catholic high school I attended, and had subbed for a frew times this year, had also made a comment to me once that her computer person was being stretched awfully thin this year because they are really ramping up their computer use in the grade school and high school. Anyway, with a very heavy heart I left his office, thinking now that I had to start all over again, from scratch. Was God telling me this was not what he wanted me to do? I found it so hard to believe, but it certainly was looking that way. I went to my car, and sat there a little while, numb. Do I go back to class, or do I get on the computer and start my search all over again? Or do I just pack up and drive the 4 hours home and forget about the whole thing? I kept thinking about that superintendant at the Catholic School (Aquin HS). I'd pick up my phone, then lay it down. Finally, I dialed her number. She answered on the first ring! I said, "Hi...say, do you remember when you told me about your computer person and how she had too much going on now....etc. etc. " I told her what happened with the Orangeville board meeting, and how I was already at EIU in classes, and so on. I told her, "I only need to teach ONE class to fulfill this program's requirements and get certified. I am so sorry to bother you with this whim of mine, but do you think there is ANY possibility that Aquin may have some kind of opening this fall that could work for me?" (note, I had not even submitted an application or a resume to her up to this point)...there was a pause, and she said, "Only one class?" ...yes...then she said something amazing. She said, "You know, I think sometimes things happen just the way they're supposed to happen." I said, "what"? Then she proceeded to tell me how she had been wracking her own brain trying to work on next year's schedule and there was such an imbalance with the technology dept and she had not been able to balance it out. Then she told me she could give me a class to teach...!!!...!!! She hired me on the spot, over the phone, without anything other than our history as the reason. After 4 or 5 "are you sure"s from me, she told me to relax, to go back to my classes and not to worry anymore, that she would write up a contract for me and get it done right away. So folks...I am going to be a high school computer teacher at a CATHOLIC school - MY old Catholic school. When I work there as a sub I feel like I am home! I am still in shock and awe over this sudden miracle that occurred. Orangeville was my obstacle, not my answer. This has been the most incredible day. My conversion has taken a huge leap today and my heart is...well, I can't describe it. I never would've thought in a million years that this would happen today. So, now I am officially "in" the EIU program. The professor here didn't even hesitate or wait for her to call him, when I bolted back into his office saying, "You'll never guess what just happened..." he enrolled me immediately (he actually has worked with Aquin before and also he is a religious man, so he saw the miracle for what it was and didn't even question it"). Jesus, I trust in You! Potatosack, I am still praying for you. It will happen now for you too, it has to!
Wonderful News. Praise God!! I have been praying for those who need prayers on this forum at Adoration and Holy hrs etc. I still need prayers for the Crises and now for my daughter 8 mths pregnant with a 2 year old also, who may have hand, foot and mouth disease as she was exposed. I'm on my way to help her.Please keep us all in your prayers. It's so uplifting to see and read how God answers prayers!! I have not heard anything about this Crises in the last few days and that could mean they are working it out or it is getting worse. Please help.
Connie, How wonderful! How fun to revel in joy! Eph 3:20 Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
Thank you everyone. Just got home after spending the day at the hospital daughter has a fast heartrate and can't do anything so tired and so I have the 2 year old here now in bed for the night. No talks about hand and foot disease but they won't let her go too long with the fast heartrate-due July 18th. Thanks for all prayers and for answered prayer! RoryRory
