Confirmation

I am posting because I really have to thank God for the way He's been moving in my life. He's been confirming my mission and really comforting me, I've been getting the feeling that if I am faithful to Him with business as my ministry, then He'll be faithful and give to me my heart's one desire: a loving home with wife and kids.

Small things like yesterday, I talked with an immigration lawyer and he gave a contact for evaluating my degree. It was my mistake to not save the text file I had written it in but when I was helping my mom with her Sunday school stuff, I accidentally killed my text file. I absolutely panicked. But armed with only an area code, a vague recollection of the person's last name, and the fact that it was a degree evaluation company, God helped me google out the name and contact. I was so relieved. Incredible. My mom said that God takes care of those who do His work and I believe that is true.

Later that day, for my friend's going out party, one of her friends was chatting and I found out she used to be a knowledge manager at two of the Big 4 accounting firms and her husband was a consultant, with a software background, at Arthur Anderson. I got both some great advice and confirmation that I was on the right track. They told me that being a consultant was very much about personality - you had to be able to be independent, identify the client's needs, come up with the solution, convince people to use the solution; you had to get it done and no excuses about it. Well, roughly that's what I remember. Haha, I just mainly remember I'm on the right track. Great people. And my friend's awesome. Haha.

And the verse that spoke to me this morning: John 12:24-25 "Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal."

Oh. In case you don't know my mission: to develop communities, by helping people improve their businesses, for the glory of God. Sounds like consulting to me and they thought so too. =)

Been happier and more stable these past few days / weeks (my memory's kinda melded). A colleague even complimented me for being "emotionally stable". Cool. Haha!