Friday Five in One.

I missed Thankful Thursday so here I am linking with with JOY again for The Friday Five! This post will have a Thankful Thursday aspect to it, though. And because my story is long I'm making it a Five in One post!
1-5 {The Goodness and Faithfulness of God Amazes Me}  There are times in this world when all you can do is step back and say, "there He goes again!" When I think about God I sometimes picture Him sitting on His Throne just watching and smiling and saying, "That's MY son/daughter!" like a proud papa at a soccer game. Do you ever think that God sits upon High just as amazed by the things we do for Him as we are of the things He does for US?  He has the Power to show us who God is and I'm thankful that even when I start to get a prideful feeling that God steps in and says, "Stop.  Girl I'm your Father and I  have ordained your steps before you were even born. I got this. I know what is coming your way.  I give you hope and plans for a future.  I'm in control here."
I had an interview today.  I interviewed for this same position back in December. I knew we needed for me to be working again because this new car payment isn't going to make itself and since we haven't been fostering (which the new car was for that purpose so we budged foster reimbursement as part of providing for the children as a portion of the car payment. That's not to say we fostered for the money.  We didn't.  Trust me that $20 a day means nothing today.) making ends meet has been tough.  I've relied on credit more than I should or wanted but it was all going to be okay because xyz was coming through for us.  When I interviewed in December I wanted to start the first of this year because I wanted to spend the holidays with my family.  I didn't get the job. Then.  Reason: because I couldn't start immediately and the main superior wasn't sure I could handle being a graduate student and a full time employee.  I'm in the middle of two of my last three classes.  
A friend of mine got the job instead.  I never got a letter of "thanks but no thanks" so after a month of wondering why I didn't get the job with 4 more years of experience than my friend God said, "call the boss let him know you're still interested.  IT'S YOUR TIME!"  I called.  Voicemail.  Funny God!! :)
I get a call back, I have a position opening please send me your resume.  There's back story but it's not important.  Today was my interview.  Today I found out the reasons I was passed over the first time.  Today was different.  The timing is better.  I can start immediately.  Starting in March I have one class and it's online so it's not going to be a problem. The supervisor is loving this.  He wants to hire me.
I hand him a letter of recommendation from my friend Wendy who God brought into my life through a casual "we know the same friends so let's be Facebook friends" link up to being real in the flesh good friends and sisters in Christ and attend the same church.
I hand him a glowing letter of recommendation from my previous supervisor Amanda who was (and I'm not just saying this) one of the best supervisors I've ever had. 
Then after my interview my phone starts popping and dinging.  Facebook: Amanda...I just gave you a glowing recommendation.  Phone call to Wendy who said what God has for me is for me and it's in HIS timing.  I start to feel like "I GOT THIS!" 
Then GOD shows up to say, "But WAIT...watch this..."
13 years ago I started a new job and met Damita.  She is one of the most sincerely faithful woman I know.  Her love for Christ and her desire to serve Him amazes me. She introduced me to our church.  It was under different pastors then.  I wasn't ready for a relationship with God.  I quit going.
Fast forward several years I meet and marry my husband who is from 3 hours south of where we live but had moved here 13 years before for a job.  
Damita and I have stayed friends for 13 years.  I found my way back to the church even though my husband wasn't a "believer."  He hated church.  But I went anyway.  I loved the new pastors.  I loved the church.   The next week my husband went with me.  Who did he see?  A high school friend from his small town 3 hours south.  He was so excited and surprised to see Cassandra who attends our church because she works with Damita and was led by Damita to our church.  My husband and I were then knocked over by the fact that our pastors are from the same area Jeffrey is from.  
Where am I going with this?  Today they called my references for this job.  They called a job I had for one year 13 years ago.  They didn't keep electronic records of employees back then so I wouldn't be in any database for any employment verification.  But God said, "look what I can do."  Cassandra answered that phone call today. Because of the power of God, the way He has moved in all of our lives: the life of Damita who led me to CLM years ago, the lives of Pastors Leo and Regina for leading them to CLM, the life of Cassandra who started after I left but was led to the same spiritual well by Damita, the life of my husband who took a chance and moved up here 13 years ago, to my life and how looking back it has been orchestrated like a delicate quit of worn out, torn, and perfectly brand new pieces of fabric all sewn together for a purpose I couldn't have comprehended 13 years ago.
All these worlds diverged today.  I'm seriously and simply humbled by the way God has had my back through this whole process. 
I won't know for a few days if I get the job.  But even if I don't even if God's only purpose through this whole mind-blowing showcase was to show me who He is, I'm going to praise Him and thank Him for letting me know that nothing in my life is so small that He can't attend to my needs.  Today, I was the proud kid who sat back and said, "That's MY Father!"
Thank you Lord for being the very air that I breathe.  Thank you for continuing to show me who you are and what you are capable of and that you love me.  I'm simply amazed.