Dear Diary

Journal Entries:
5/26/99:
I have applied for several jobs and had several phone interviews.  There's one in San Diego at California Western School of Law.  California seems exciting...I fly out there to interview on June 7.  I am remaining prayerful and trusting that the job will come through.  A move to CA would be expensive and time consuming but I know God will make a way. 

6/9/99:

Well, I'm back from the interview in California.  It was a wonderful experience and I'm excited about the possibility of getting the job. Next year this time I may be in California.  I am most nervous about being away from my family.  I will miss them tremendously.  I just need to make sure my salary will be enough to make trips home as often as I want to. I am turning things over to God and trusting that He will make a way for whatever He wants to happen in my life.

Beautiful San Diego Skyline

I was going through one of my journals a few days ago and came across these two entries.  I was struck by what I wrote and by what has transpired in my life over the past eleven and a half years.  I realized that God had given me exactly what I had asked Him for:  I got the job at the law school.  I didn't have to worry about the cost of the move out to San Diego because the law school moved me out here.  I have been able to visit my family in Omaha and Kansas City frequently.  So frequent that at one point someone at my home church asked if I had moved back to Omaha.

Coming across this blog when I did was right on time.  There are a few things I have been praying to God for recently.  One of things I have been praying about consistently and I started wondering if it would ever come to pass.  The journal reminds me that God does answer prayers.  Sometimes we need to be reminded about all of the amazing things God has already done in our lives in order strengthen our faith in God to deliver the things we're asking him for now.  

Oddly enough, the one thing that I had been praying consistently about come to pass today.  Once again, God showed up right on time. 

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.
                                                                                -Matthew 21:22