Wow an update

I know that it has been ever since I posted and it hasn't been for a lack of things to post. We have been very busy. My new job is going well, albeit somewhat challenging. I seem to be finding myself in positions where I am having to clean up accounting messes. This most recent challenge was created by a very green inexperienced young person fresh out of college who thinks they know accounting. There is a lot that can be said for real life experience and learning that it is ok to ask for help when you are uncertain on how to do certain tasks. Why is it that younger people have such a hard time with that concept???

But I am slowly untangling the mess of plugged entries and sloppy accounting and hope to finally be able to present this company with real financial statements.

At home we have been busy getting our yard put together and planting flowers. Of course with all the rain the last week, I am really starting to get behind. I have grand plans on what I want to do, but we shall see what really gets accomplished this year.

Because I like taking so many pictures I finally reached the limit that I can post on Blogger without having to hand over $$$$. So my wonderful husband did some searching on the web and found that no one had used my name for a domain name yet. So he set me up with my own domain that I can now load all my pictures on. It is still a work in progress, but I am slowly getting everything transferred over there. If you want to pay it a visit the address is:

http://merianne.org/gallery2/main.php

At some point I will move my blog over there, but one step at a time. I will admit it is much much easier then anything I have ever used to upload pictures and much quicker.

God is so good

Just yesterday I was writing about how I was expected a period of unemployment after my temp assignment at Epud was coming to an end. I had resolved that I was ok with that and that my faith was in God's providence that He had plan grander then me.

When I got into work this morning I got a call from my recruiter and amazingly they have another assignment for me starting on MONDAY!!! I feel so very blessed beyond measure and thankful that in this very turbulent and uncertain time God has so richly provided for us.

It reminds me of a verse that was shared with my family when my dad was so ill.

In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9

Oh, and I just have to share an incredible picture I took a few weeks back when we were out at the coast. It is of the light inside the Yaquina Head Lighthouse which we climbed to the top of. Not an easy climb. What I didn't realize until yesterday when I was working with the picture for a project at work was that I managed to get the reflection of the hill and coastline in the top of the picture.

What is next

I am about to face another new milestone in my life. For the first time ever I am about to become unemployed. Other then for a brief period after my dad passed away, I have not known where I would be going to work. I have always felt very blessed that when I needed a job God was able to provide me one. Yet even now I know He has a job already planned out for me. I feel very fortunate that for the last 6 months I have had an incredible opportunity to work for a really fun company in Eugene. I have been since September on a temp assignment through Accountemps working at Emerald People's Utility District. It was originally a job that was supposed to end in November or December, then got extended into January, then the end of February, and just when I thought it was about to end they needed me for one more week. I have tried not to think about what is coming, but with all the doom and gloom in the news these days, reality is starting to sink in.

But then as I was driving home tonight a song played that reminded me that once again reminded me that I don't need to fear the future and how thankful I am to know that God is in control.




Newsboys - Lord (i Don't Know)

You are the author of knowledge
You can redeem what's been done
You hold the present and all that's to come
Until your everlasting kingdom

chorus:
Lord I don't know where all this is going
or how it all works out
lead me to peace that is past understanding
A peace beyond all doubt

You are the God of tomorrow
Turning the darkness to dawn
Lifting the hopeless with hope to go on
You are the rock of all salvation

chorus

Ohh Lord, you are the author
Redeeming what's been done
You hold us in the present
And all that is to come

Lord we don't know where all this is going
Or how it all works out
Lead us to peace that is past understanding
A peace beyond all doubt