The Coworkers story
For those that may not know and there
are some who do. This blog is emailed to a few people because it started
out as a blog for church members, family and friends and a few months back I
sent them a prayer request because of my work situation. I worked for a
company from September to April. Towards the beginning of February a man
started making my job very difficult. He would come by the guard house
and say things to me that were very much sexual harassment. Because the
police and people over me in management couldn’t find a legal way to resolve
the issue I was removed from the site allegedly for my protection and spent
about two months with no work or pay. I took on a second job working for
Favor delivering groceries and food. I learned some things in the
meantime and that would be certain people in management had worked against me
to have me gone. I also found out that my friends Debra and David were
trying to get my job back. Some of you may be saying this is not Zac’s
normal Batcave blog and no it’s not. I have a point but you have to bear
with me. See I didn’t put a lot of these events together till recently.
It was a long stressful time for my wife and I because I’m not the type
of person to not try to support Marion and I. I wanted to work and being
a security guard is something I enjoy doing. As I stated in the meantime
other things were happening. My friend and coworker, Debra quit.
But I found out from her that she had been fighting to try and get me
back to work and simply became fed up with management decisions. Marion
and I meanwhile were working for Favor and we helped Debra take up that line of
work as well. We had multiple phone conversations with her trying to help
her learn the job. Recently I was contacted by a friend I had once worked
with and she was recommending me for a job. One I was very familiar with.
I had to give it a lot of prayer and thought. It meant driving
further to work but it was steady and paid more than the sporadic guard work I
was getting. So I quit one job and picked up a new job. Things fell
into place in ways only God could make happen. I literally worked my last
shift at one job and then went to train for a new one. When I got hired I
started asking if they were hiring more people. Knowing my friend Debra
didn’t have a job other than working for Favor as well I kept telling her to
apply with the company I was working for. Things happened where one
employee was not able to stay and work. Debra just got hired for that
shift because I referred her. I was talking to Marion as we drove to the
grocery store and telling her that all these horrible things happened but in
the end God has been using it to help us and then help Debra as well. We
have referral bonuses for helping the company get more workers and from what
I’m hearing it will benefit both of us. Something else that went on
during all of this is we inherited a new house and mine and Marion’s family
helped us a lot. We recently sold our old house. We are blessed
very much so and the glory only belongs to God.
I told you I have a point to all of
this. The man who caused me problems before thinks he won by getting rid
of me and to me at the time it very much felt like he did. See everything
that happened yeah it hurt at the time. But God used it for good!
If you look in the book of Genesis at the life of Joseph he gets sold by
his own brothers into slavery then gets put in jail and through events only God
could change he becomes second in command of all of Egypt saving thousands of
lives and he makes a proclamation to his own brothers who meant him harm.
The things that they meant to harm him God used all that. The bad
stuff that happened to me with work God used it! Was it fun? No.
But I look back now and see Him at work in it.
See Romans 8:28 says this. “And
we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who
love God and are called according to His purpose for them.”
I don’t know what is happening in
your lives I barely understand what’s happening in mine a lot of times but God
can be trusted! He’ll use the good and bad in your life.
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