This past Thursday, I had several dear work friends who lost their jobs in our company’s latest round of layoffs. I felt worse seeing my friends lose their jobs than I did when I was found out my end date back in February. Maybe it was a delayed reaction, or maybe it’s because I thought I would be leaving first. Now I have to say good-bye to several people in a couple of weeks and I have already begun to mourn my loss. When I got home late that afternoon, I had to lie down, because I was so emotionally spent.
I kept playing the day’s events over and over in my head. Visuals of shocked faces, tear-stained faces, and faces who were simply relieved to finally know their fate monopolized my mind. I kept wondering how people would cope and how I would cope. Then I realized that God is within each of us and we only need to go inside ourselves and seek.
There is so much wealth that lies within us if only we take the time to find it. It’s so easy to get caught up in the routine of the cultural work week and forget about the goldmine within. Inside ourselves is where we connect with the Divine and where we find peace of mind. Sometimes answers to difficult questions are often discovered when we quietly reflect and wait for guidance. This place inside us is always accessible but often we forget about it or we think we don’t have time to visit this special place. But the truth for me is – I don’t have time to not go inside right now.
For those of us losing our jobs right now, this period in our lives will eventually be just a bad memory. We will all move forward, new and better jobs will be found, new businesses will be started, and we will all be stronger for the experience. When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and some pretty tough people lost their jobs this past week. Maybe God allowed the ones to be laid off who he knew could handle it and rise to the occasion. Maybe he has some exciting plans for all of us and we all needed this little nudge so that we would listen to our inner voice inside and get busy with our real purposes and the more important work we need to be doing right now. And what is that you may ask? I have no idea, but I plan on going inside and finding out. I’ll keep you posted!!
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Hey, nice post, really well written. You should post more about this.
Hi there K. Bear – Love the new look and feel of the blog – it’s fabulous. This post was so sweet – I almost think it’s harder for us to see others heartache then to go through our own. That’s probably why in the movies the “bad guys” will always get some stone faced person to talk by threatening his loved ones after threatening the person themselves doesn’t work. I hope as you and the others go through the transition even better things will open up. God knows what a morale breaker that place can be sometimes! It was always you ladies and the few fine gentlemen that got me through happy and healthy each day. Love you girls!
Read a really good proverb just now that said, “If you want to feel and know how rich you are, start counting all the blessings you have that money simply could never buy!”
Too true. Love what you’re doing here, love you’re great energy and love you’re writing. Keep on with all the fabulous work!
All my best!!
How soon will you update your blog? I’m interested in reading some more information on this issue.