This past week has been extremely challenging...leaving no time for blogging, Facebook, reading emails, etc. Bouncing between two offices while learning new duties and trying to manage my current projects, has produced the usual results. I've come down sick...again...and have spent every minute trying to get through the work day only to come home midday and collapse. I pause to look at what is going on right now, internally and externally. Headlines and newscasts of 250 layoffs were broadcast Thursday. My "classification" group is unaffected yet...but there has been enough chatter going on around me for months that warns our group is next in line. I have worked in government and education for the past 18 years, and as a result, I've spent my life living inside a cocoon. Protected under a warm security blanket of union rights and seniority, prior years of layoffs have never affected me or those I work closely with. This is not the case now. Everything has changed. Everyone feels uncertain. Everyone is uptight. Everyone is expecting a "pink slip" fortelling the future of unemployment effective July 1st (if not much sooner). And like everyone else, I'm trying to get through this period of uncertainty as best I can, although it has taken a challenging toll on my physical well being.
What I've discovered is that the reality I've come to know for so long is now somewhat distorted. It's so easy to take life and its luxuries for granted when living inside a cocoon. It shelters you from the harsh outside elements. As I try to continue to weather the storms of other changes going on in my life...I now find that I need to take cover as best I can and try to ride out this storm of potential job loss. It is times like these that I need a constant reminder that God will never give me anything more than I can handle. No matter how much I doubt whether I can withstand the challenges I face.
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