Dear Lord Jesus......

WOW! WHAT A DAY!


I have not been blogging much lately because I have been so busy. But sometimes I write just to see what is actually happening to me. This is one of those times. I just want to write this down and re read it over, and over, and over again.

God works in unique ways....


About a month ago, I started working at Wal-Mart. I mainly took the job to finance my childcare burden. My wife had given birth to our second child, and our daycare costs doubled. So getting a part time job was absolutely necessary to continue on with my life.

On about the fifth or sixth day, I met a man named Scott. He had just moved from the shoe department to the produce department. Scott does not look like a christian, but then again what does one look like? Scott works out every day and looks like a muscle man. Him and his wife lived in Minnesota and both have college degrees in education. At some point in Scott's life, the lord told him to move. To leave education and move west. Scott did so. Somewhere down the line, he ended up at Wal-Mart and somewhere down the line he ended up in shoes and then a couple of days before I started he ended up in produce where I currently work.


Scott told me his story. It touched me deep inside because it spoke volumes. I brushed it off because I thought that I didn't believe in God. Scott spoke about preaching on the streets while his boss is running a Wal-Mart. Kind of weird for a guy who has an education to just talk about preaching. I say this not in any ill-willed fashion but I say this because I was shocked.

A couple of weeks went by and every day something about what Scott said touched me. It was like Scott was put in my path for a purpose. I didn't know why, and I cannot explain it but it happened.

About 2 weeks ago, I woke up and had a vision out of no where that I should attend college at Virginia Tech. I have NEVER EVER thought about attending Virginia Tech. I had no idea why this thought came into my mind, but for some reason I had no anxiety about it. I again brushed off the thought, but the next day I saw Scott again. Nothing popped out to me, except that I was missing something. In fact that day I thought that I had heard an employee talk negatively about me when she was actually referring to someone else. I had a largely poor day that day and when I found out that she was not speaking of me, I knew that I was having a problem understanding things.

So there I was that night. For the first time in a while, I prayed. I talked and prayed and tried everything to make sense of my life. I asked God to guide me and help me understand why this Virginia Tech vision had come and to give me a recognizable sign. That sign came today. I was doing absolutely nothing on my shift when I looked over and watched a woman with a Virgina Tech sweatshirt pass me. I took this as a sign, but still felt a little shaky.

On my way home, I told myself and God right there that if this is real that I will need to talk to someone about it. I thought of talking with my mother right then and there. I have mocked my mother for years over her belief in God, but I knew she was the only one who would answer. The problem was that my mom usually works five days a week. But I thought, if God really wants me to move to Virginia Tech then my mom will be there to talk to.....I called and the phone rang five times. Then my mother picked up....

I knew something was up and that this meant something was real. The problem is that I cannot switch my major at my current university because my GPA is too low. Applying to Virginia Tech and getting in would be incredibly difficult. This is because I have a low GPA. The only reason that I can think of going to V-Tech is that they have a large military presence on campus.

So without further hesitation I filled out an application and sent my first of three transcripts to the school. I then called to see if I could substitute my foreign language requirement for the two semesters of sign language that I took. I found out that I could!

I'll keep this blog updated as time goes on and maybe this will turn out to be something real.