After numerous failed attempts to find permanent employment,
I am fighting discouragement and despair. Several friends, who are HR
administrators, have agreed my age is a huge factor in my job search. Granted,
it is illegal to discriminate because of age, but proving discrimination is
hard. And although I have seen jobs I
applied for go to applicants with half my skill and experience - and half my
age, it would still be hard to prove. If
I wanted to. Personally, I do not want to work for a company I forced through
litigation to hire me. The work place is a tough enough environment without
adding that kind of stress.
Ironically, I am too young to retire and too old to be
employed. Then an added disadvantage, I don’t speak a second language, which becoming
more and more a requirement, at least in our area.
Add the looming changes in Federal taxes and other
regulations which will negatively impact my husband’s and my finances even
further,my husband is considering becoming an Ex-Pat, moving to a foreign
country where our dollar will go further. I love my country and am not sure
this is what I want to do, but I can’t argue against the financial aspect.
Statistics show over 3 million retirees are moving to other countries in order
to spread out their retirement funds. Most are going to South
America where the peso to dollar ratio is three to one.
Money isn’t everything, and there are many other things to
consider. With my husband it is also the desire to travel. Living abroad would
also give us that opportunity. What to do?
Amid my desperate prayers for wisdom, my devotions offered
these nuggets of spiritual insight.
Streams in the Desert
November 25, 26 and 27:
11/25: “To him who is able to do immeasurably more than all
we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be
glory. Ephesians 3:20-21.
The same power that saved us, washed us with His blood,
filled us with the power of His Holy Spirit, and protected us through numerous
temptations will work for us to meet
every emergency, every crisis, every circumstance, and every adversary. The Alliance
11/26: “And One asked softly, ‘Why, indeed, take overanxious
thought for what tomorrow brings you? See you not The Father knows just what
you need?’ ” [Reference to Luke 12:22-30 – The Lilies of the Field]
11/27: “Nothing is impossible with God. (Luke 1:37)
“Therefore may we continue to persevere, for even if we took our circumstances
and cast all the darkness of human doubt upon them and then hastily piled as
many difficulties together as we could find against God’s divine work, we could
never move beyond the blessedness of His miracle-working power. May we place
our faith completely in Him, for He is the God of the impossible.”
When I look back at all my former difficulties, I see His
hand, all of His miraculous deliveries. Impossibilities made possible. Faith
was, and is, the difference. The deeper our faith, the more profound and
amazing His miracles.
With that in mind, I am giving it all to Him to figure out,
for without doubt “…they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they
shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary. They shall walk
and not faint.” Isaiah 40: 31. And, I
will “see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13. He
has promised.
