Pruning.

Pictured Below: the Chevy Cruze and a photo of my team who installs the decklid (otherwise know as the "trunk lid"), hood hinges, fender and headlight brackets. My apologies for the photo quality.

Over the past few weeks my pastor has been going over some great teachings on pruning, which you can look up and listen to here. They have really inspired the way I view my trials.

So as I sit here, starting this post on my lunch break, I realize the date. It is 8/9/11 and the one year anniversary of my hire at General Motors, Lordstown. There is only one problem, I haven't gained any seniority, benefits, or any other "rights" that most of my co-workers have. This is because even after a year of employment, I am still considered a temporary employee... Come September my status as a temp will expire and one of three things will happen. I'll get hired full time and receive the same benefits that all the other full time employees enjoy. I'll get an extension and continue my service as a temp for another period of time. Or, I'll be laid off.

Now, I could look at this scenario one of two ways, the first being how most of my fellow temps are seeing it. I could complain that they have used us to make themselves richer while we remain in stress that we aren't actually hired in. I could get all fired up and curse out the union and tell them they haven't done a thing to help us. These would both be valid complaints...

Or...
I could acknowledge my blessings.

I choose to rejoice because I have been blessed with a job for a year, while others struggle on little or no income, trying to feed their families. I rejoice because this past year, my job has blessed me with wages that double the minimum wage in Ohio. I will rejoice because even if God's will is NOT for me to be hired in, He will provide. General Motors is my employer... Jehovah Jirah is my provider! Whatever takes place, I will rejoice. His plans are to prosper me, even if to test me first. If this is God's way of pruning me, I pray that it will succeed in it's purpose...

That I may bear much fruit.