Remembering God’s Good Care

In hard times, it’s crucial to remember God’s good care during past difficulties. The past three years have brought significant health problems for my husband, Clay. He developed Afib while we were out of the country. A scan of his heart when we returned home showed a growth on his liver. That turned out to be metastasized bone cancer. He’s gone through difficult cancer treatments. Chemotherapy and radiation hindered his appetite.

Right away we turned to a tool we use in hard times: a Truth Journal. One of its ten sections is called Remembrances. The basis for including this section is verses like these:

“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.” (Psalm 143:5)

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,” (Psalm 103:2)

Here’s an example of a time we experienced God’s good care that we both listed in our Truth Journals.

A Loss and Its Aftermath

A medical laboratory recruited me to work as a systems analyst, oversee the company’s transition from DOS to Windows, and design a computer training program. They assured me that working in the medical industry had the benefit of job security, and I took the job.

One year later, the company was bought out and downsized. They laid off a third of my department, including me.

I was devastated. I sent out resumes to no avail.

But here’s what happened.

Just before I was laid off, Clay had been hired as the interim CEO at a small Christian school named Simon Greenleaf, which offered degrees in law and Christian apologetics. The accounting VP had resigned, so Clay wanted me to come work for him. But I had turned him down because I had a job I loved and I disliked accounting.

Now I was stuck. I told him I’d work for him until I found another systems analyst position.

However, I soon discovered the school needed a computer programmer more than an accountant. The former accountant had been keeping books on paper cards and worksheets. He sent the data out to a contractor who entered it into accounting software and sent him back reports.

How inefficient!

I purchased the accounting software and automated the bookkeeping and recruitment records.

Meanwhile, a VP from the medical company that had laid me off called saying they couldn’t go forward without training in the software upgrades I’d instituted. Another VP called saying the IT department no longer had the personnel to handle programming needs, so could they hire me to program as a contractor? Soon the company was paying me more for temporary jobs than my former salary.

More Evidence of God’s Good Care

About a year after being laid off, a Simon Greenleaf contact asked me to write a proposal for work he needed at his construction company. I won the contract, and when I finished the job, he recommended me to a giant construction company called the Irvine Company. Now I had more work than I could handle.

Clay hired a new accountant, and I quit the law school to run my own business. Not only was I making more money than when I worked as a regular employee, but I had time to pursue writing, something that I’d dreamed of for years.

My initial job loss was God moving us to something better.

Remembering God’s Good Care

When we turn to the Remembrances section of our Truth Journals, we see the entry about my being laid off and many other entries. As we ponder each memory, it lifts our hopes and assures us that God will take good care of us in current trials as well.

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