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When I wondered about a safety net
Cultivating the ability to hear God’s direction and the wisdom to follow it has been very important to me.
Halfway through my four-month residency in Spain, where I was completing a study abroad program, I received a call from a colleague back in the United States. “I won’t be able to rehire you when you return from Spain,” she said. There was a momentary silence as I struggled to fathom the impact of that news.
I had left my job two months earlier with the assurance that I would be rehired at the end of the abroad program. My colleague knew this and explained that it had nothing to do with me or my performance. Our employer had simply instituted a hiring freeze as part of a cost-cutting initiative, and I was an unintended victim of that freeze.
The news was devastating. My husband and I were a two-income family, and we had expected to rely on my salary not only to pay for the trip but to enable me to continue my education and complete my degree without incurring debt. Since I still had two months left in Spain, it seemed wise to begin a long-distance job search immediately. I walked to the nearest internet café, found a vacant seat, and began my search.
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