Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend – and when I say a friend, I mean one that I’ve known for 32 years (I’m 33). He got a new Job, but not just a new job, it’s a DREAM job. As long as I’ve known him he has been into airplanes. He went to school to be an aircraft mechanic, and worked in a shop in Cincinnati repairing airplanes installing avionics, etc.
He loves to restore old airplanes, and for a while worked for an independent outfit in Goshen on the weekends restoring vintage aircraft including this fun one.
There’s a fun little article here about the Heddon Minnow plane. He eventually got a job at the Tri-State Warbird Museum restoring vintage warbirds.
He and his wife wanted children and God allowed that to happen. His wife was an art teacher and wanted to stay home with the new baby boy, so that’s what she did. Anybody out there trying to make it happen on one income?? Long story even longer, They are making it, but not really getting ahead and there were job opportunities that he was seeking, for jobs that he really wasn’t passionate about, but you have to pay the bills, right?? So he kept pursuing jobs to no avail.
Ok, here’s the really cool part of the story. My friend and I used to go to the USAF Museum and just be in awe and wonder at all of the vintage warbirds. Recently he applied for a job there in their restoration shop and after going through some hoops, God in his mercy and grace allowed him to have the job. He’ll be on their restoration and display team, making more money, working fewer hours, have a more flexible schedule, with more time at home with his family.
The comment he made to me was it really made him realize how much God loves him. Chad is like you or I. His life hasn’t been easy – his first wife walked out on him, his church crapped on him when that happened and he was ostracized because he was divorced. Yet through all of this he has realized the depth of God’s love for him.
Ok, my encouragement is this – Have these conversations with those around you. Have them with those you love, have them with those you don’t even know. The stories that we tell have an unseen power behind them because they tell the story of our intersection with our Creator, and his son Jesus. They tell about why we are different, and how we have been changed for the better.
What’s your story??
