It’s been about a month now? I officially started my new job and this week was my first full week on my own. I moved away from a job and workplace that I already loved to a place that is building on that love and passion I have for my career. I won’t lie, I was completely burned out by my last job – I felt under-appreciated, taken for granted… but to say that they didn’t build me up in the right way to succeed the way I am in my current workplace? There are no words that can help say how grateful I am to have started there first, to have grown there and to have met the amazing people I did to help shape the kind of nurse I’m growing to be. I’ve moved from one dream job to another and I am so thankful, because the timing of everything has been perfect, as it always has been. For me, in every transition I like to think that I pray a lot. I pray for courage and guidance, I pray for a sign… this time was no different. And it really seems like in every part of my…
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God First
Today was our first service under our new pastor 🙂 I have to be completely honest, I have been doubtful that he could fit the proverbial shoes of his predecessor, PK. But today, I was pleasantly surprised. Seems like doesn’t have to fill PK’s shoes, he has his own. What I loved most about how he carried out his first sermon as senior pastor is that he gave time to acknowledge that the church is and will be going through a grieving period and will be mourning the loss of a leader that has meant a lot to the entire congregation. He felt that way too. What I was surprised of, which I should have never been surprised about, is how God has been in control of the church and has been working in and through the people around the church to take care of its members. He shared the story of how PK was the one who had baptized him 20 years ago during his first service as senior pastor of EBCLA. He also shared that He didn’t want to stay at EBCLA, but was led through PK’s wife to stay and grow at this church. The way everything…
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PK
After 36 years of service, my pastor has retired. I’m terribly sad but also grateful that I’ve had the chance to be a part of the congregation he has ministered to, because my life and my faith has changed so much because of him. I started going to Evergreen at the end of high school. I joined their basketball ministry to play with some of my friends and it was a requirement that we attend their services. By the time I was in college, I made the decision on my own to leave my previous church, a church I spent my whole life growing up in, to move to EBCLA. It wasn’t really a bold decision. I made excuses not to go to church and even when I did, I made myself busy with media ministry that I never was fed by God’s word and could never really “worship.” In all honesty, at that point I was discouraged, confused, and extremely angry. There was so much hypocrisy and to add to that, I felt like an outsider in a church that I spent my whole life in – and it hurt so much to feel rejected in a place where…
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Late Night Again
I’m still awake. 12:45am. Sunday morning. I have so much on my mind as usual. And like always, I really wish I didn’t. 30 simple case study entries. 4 detailed case study entries. 1 epidemiology paper worth 40% of my grade. 1 mini-proposal paper worth 40% of my grade. 1 work flow analysis presentation. 1 mini-proposal presentation. Finals. Vacation. 4 weeks left. Let’s push through this, yes? No? You have no choice anyway 😛
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Let’s Talk About Change
So. I’ve got quite a few updates 🙂 I’m leaving my old department. I got a new job. I can’t leave my old job completely, so I’m sticking around with a per diem position. I guess that isn’t a lot of change. But it is to me! It was hard to decide to leave my current department, but I felt like with all the changes in management, work wasn’t the same for me anymore. I didn’t feel respected or listened to in the same way I was before. Nor did I feel like any of the managers were people I truly respected. I didn’t feel like I had a choice in anything. Quite frankly, I felt like a pawn that the managers would use whenever they needed me, instead of the semi-superstar of a nurse my old manager made me feel like. When work suddenly became burdensome, I knew I had to leave. Except! Except I had developed such good rapport with some of my favorite units. It was hard to think about leaving them a little while ago, and it’s just as hard today. They’re my work family and they’ve been a constant in an ever changing work environment…