Joining the Ranks of the Employed Citizens of the United States

i got a job. it's great. i'm gonna be working at a japanese restaurant as a kitchen helper. so i'm gonna start off as a dish washer, then they'll be training me to make like.. some foods. maybe tempura. maybe salads. i dunno.

but the thing about this whole situation is that i've been having doubts. i've been in kona for over a month, searching for a job. searching for the opportunity to make money, to fly back out to australia. but after searching and searching, i wasn't having any success. i just was hanging out. sitting. vegging out. and i was like, where is my job? why hasn't God given me a job yet? why didn't he provide for me? i got into this rut. i was getting angry. upset. stupid. and i was blaming God. but then i realized... i hadn't even asked God to give me a job. i was like, hmm... maybe i should ask. so i did. and i said. God, please help me get a job. and a few days later, i got a call from Genki sushi for a job interview, which i'm going to later today, and then i stumbled over this ad in the paper saying that a restaurant was hiring. and so i went to apply. and... i got a job.

so the reason for sharing this, is that at church on sunday, the pastor said that oftentimes we forget to tell others about God's goodness to us. Like the lepers. the ten of them. when Jesus healed them, only one came back. why not all? cause only one remembered to turn and glorify God with his words. so that's what i'm doing. just... yeah. that.

but on that note, why don't we tell everyone about what God has done for us? are we ashamed? embarrased? or just don't see it as such a big deal? i mean, there are so many other things that we tell people about almost immediately after it happens. example. i was driving home the other day. on one of the little terraces along the side of the road there was this guy bent over. he had his back to the road. and then it hit me. like a bird hits a glass window on a clear sunny day. or... i dunno. i can't think of any witty analogies. but it hit me. what hit me? well. the guy was mooning people along the side of the road as the passed. as soon as i got home, i texted a friend like "dude, this guy totally just mooned me as i was driving. haha" why was that so important? why was it that almost immediately i had the urge to tell someone about it? i dunno. why don't i react that way when God's promises come true? hmmm. food for thought.