I've started work at my new occupation - Chiropractic Assistant and Practice Manager. It's not an easy road. The learning curve has not only been steep, it feels like it's going around a twisty mountain and there's a few places where I've wondered about the guardrail.
It's presented me with all kinds of amazing opportunities. Like the opportunity to grow personally as well as professionally. I've been blessed with a fantastic coach and mentor - one who doesn't hesitate to push me to more than I thought possible, encourage me to do the right thing, correct me, and show me better ways to do things. It's been a real miracle, this whole process. It's run me off my feet, but I've been pushing through.
I had to push through last night as I drove to a seminar in West Melbourne - on my own - in the pouring rain and in unfamiliar, opposite-side-of-the-road territory, driving on tram tracks (wait until one of those comes up behind you). I must confess I was fairly stressed by the time I had to squeeze my car into the tiny, parallel-parking spot in the middle (!) of Victoria Parade. But fairly amused and proud still because I'd done it.
Then the car died.
I called RACV and proceeded to wait for the service van. What to do? I had driven all this way to attend a seminar, and I only had half an hour to wait for a van that was 90 minutes from coming. Push through. I cancelled the call (which meant placing another one after 10pm) and went to the lecture. OK, so I really struggled to pay attention, and was pretty stressed out. But I did it. And prayed hard to get home from the city. I called the RACV later (after recharging the minutes on my mobile which, conveniently, had run out).
Guess what? The car started before the van got there. Oh me of little faith. God got that car home, because it died again today, and I had to push through and figure that out. But a really cool verse came up tonight on the Bible website. It's the verse that was quoted to me in a prayer meeting when we first got here. “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”(Jeremiah 29:11)
Yeah, these plans are pretty cool. I guess I just have to keep pushing through.
