Changes Are Coming

That change I’ve been feeling coming on…it’s DEFINITELY here, at least where work’s concerned.  Two people in my area responded to the email that went around last week.  Their transfers are effective next Monday.  Then another person quit today, burning bridges behind him.  I’ve often thought he didn’t appreciate having a job.  He got hired the same time I did and some of the comments he’s made since then and his actions really made me think he didn’t know how good he had it.  I’m definitely surprised he waited til now to quit.  Supposedly he has another job ready to start tomorrow – that’s right, didn’t even bother with the two weeks’ notice.  Like I said, he burnt bridges on his way out.  Generally not the best of moves.  With all that’s going on, I’m really not sure when I’ll end up outside the department.  But from what my boss said this morning, I’m not going to be hurting for work between now and then.  I had thoughts about replying to the email that went around last week, but I didn’t want to deal with the surgery stuff while in a new department.  In my current department, my supervisor knows and understands what’s going on and I’ve already got the time off approved.  In other news, PUT ends tomorrow.  That’s right – we’ll be done with it sometime tomorrow 🙂  It sounds like there’s going to be a party to celebrate on Friday.  Sounds like a plan to me. 🙂

In other news, I’m feeling a touch apprehensive about Chris.  I think I’m simply going to pray regarding why I feel this way and what I should do about it.  But aside from that, my heart is so much lighter now than it was over the weekend.  I think regarding Chris, we talked all last week but then hit the weekend and talked via Yahoo voice and I was just no longer interested.  Like really no longer interested.  I know when I meet the man I’ll marry, his voice will resonate.  It sounds strange, but I hear the power of the priesthood in the voices at church and I want nothing less than that.  I just didn’t hear that in Chris’s voice.  It’s taken me too long to make the decision to be married in the temple to settle for anything less than the person Heavenly Father knows is best for me.  For a long time, I wasn’t going to be married in the temple because it meant my extended family, and more importantly my dad, couldn’t be there.  And who knows, perhaps my dad will be there (Heavenly Father promised me when I was baptized that one day I would see my dad join the church).  But over the years, I’ve come to realize that I shouldn’t rob myself of the blessings a temple marriage will bring.  Mostly, I had good examples in church of some of those blessings, and it wasn’t just my young women leaders either. I had the opportunity over the years to be in some of their homes and I’ve realized that the Spirit I found in their homes was what I wanted.  But if I wanted that, then I needed to put aside my own pride and do what my Heavenly Father has asked of each of us.

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."