I was at work last week when the physicians' group number cruncher, a former paramedic, offered me my perfect job, one I had envisioned before having children.  My job would be as a liaison to area ambulance services to coordinate continuing education classes taught by the physicians of our group.  I would arrange the classes, get instructors, coordinate the schedules, and step in should someone not be able to make it.  He initially was looking for a paramedic to do the job; unfortunately politics is making it hard to do that--big city departments don't want someone from the privates, and vice versa, and fire departments want fire fighters, etc.  I have no affiliation, and with my "credentials" of teaching EMS that would please the EMS side, and working as a PA that would please the physician side, I would love to have such a job!!!  It is, of course, full time with travel.  I didn't even consider it.

When something like that happens, a Christian cannot help but turn her mind to God and wonder what He is telling me.  You see, when I turned it down, I had no sense of, "What should I do?  This opportunity will never come again.  How can I make this work?"  Instead, I had a great inner peace.  What should I think?  See how far I've come from just 5 years ago?  See how nothing, not even your perfect job, compares to the job of homeschooling your children?  See how I've matured spiritually, if only a little, to trust in Him instinctively?  Strange but good is about all I can say.