Oh, my goodness. It hasn’t been quite twenty-four hours since my last posting, yet it seems that at least seventy-two hours must have gone by! At 3:14pm yesterday afternoon, the waiting I referred to ended. I received a call – the call – that I got the job!! Oh, my goodness!! He actually said, “We want you to come work for us.” Now I have an inkling of how Sally Fields may have felt when she gave her famous, “You like me! You really, really like me!” acceptance speech so many years ago.
It’s been eleven months of waiting to hear those words. I listened, I heard, I thanked, I hung up, and I started dialing and e-mailing to tell my incredible support group of friends and family the good news. If I had a steeple bell to ring, it would have been clanging up a joyful symphony to call out the good news.
The serendipity of closing my final online session with the the unemployment system five minutes before that phone call is not lost on me; the timing was, in a word, fantastic! The reality is still new enough to have me in the “pinch me” phase. The future is looking brighter and more hopeful.
It is time for me to journey on. While this job is part-time and not enough by itself to sustain me, I am no longer jobless. I will accumulate the balance of what I need to survive through doing myriad odd jobs as yet to be determined past those that are immediately at hand. I will acquire my Reiki Master certifications and fulfill my destiny to be a healer [again]. Yes, it is time for me to journey on and to face new challenges and possibilities.
I am so grateful. I am so grateful. Journey on …
