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SPIRIT WARRIOR
The Best Is Yet To Come!!!!....(Story by Bo Sanchez)
A Wife Of A Jobless Husband Shares Her Story of Waiting… I’m taking a break from my teaching series on “Getting Rid of Hidden Addictions.” (I’ll give the next article next week.) Let me pause to take a breather and share with you a beautiful story. I met Yane Pe Benito when I gave a talk at her company. Yane is a lovely woman with such an amazing story to tell, I decided to share it to the world. Two years ago, Yane’s husband, Beni, without warning, lost his job. It was doubly painful because it was a great job. For 6 years, Beni enjoyed working in a multinational distribution company for skincare products. But because of a reorganization that happened in the company (which is happening in many companies nowadays), he was “redundated”. Yane decided to tell her two small children, Gabriel (then age 6), and Marga (then age 4) about the sad news, carefully choosing the words she’d use to put it to them. “Kids, we have to take better care of our things… and not waste our money because …Daddy doesn’t have a job anymore.” Little Gabriel said, “You mean Daddy was fired?” Yane was surprised at the bluntness of his words. “Now where did you learn that word?!” Her son said matter-of-factly, “From Peter Parker - Spiderman.” But yes, redundated was just a fancy word for “Get out, we don’t need you here anymore.” Losing a job is always painful, even if it goes with a “separation pay” or a “redundancy package”. While Yane was thankful for the windfall, part of her was anxious, wondering how long their family was going to have to live off the separation package. The first few months were OK; Beni got an average of two invitations per week to come for interview. But as the months stretched to a year — and then more, the invitations got fewer and far between. During the almost two years of her husband’s joblessness, Yane was going through her own anxiety. As a mother to two growing schoolchildren, she saw their savings getting smaller. (As a contingency measure, she moved out of her 8-yr old job to accept a higher-paying one.) But aside from the dwindling funds, she was also worried about Beni’s self-esteem. It wasn’t that he wasn’t trying; it was apparent thatthere just weren’t enough job opportunities for middle-aged men with his background and experience. There were actually two jobs that he accepted, but both were short-lived. Call it a conflict of personalities or a clash of styles, but he couldn’t see himself working there long-term. Anguished, Beni would walk out the door again. And their marriage started to suffer too, since she was the one who was now earning for the family. “Will my husband’s ego take this for long?” she asked herself many, many times. As each month passed, she was getting more and more worried for Beni. Yane began questioning God, “Lord, I don’t understand what else you’re trying to teach us! How else should we pray? What else should we pray for?” That was when Yane realized that their prayer had to be more specific. So she gathered her two kids around her and said, “Let’s pray for Daddy, that he would find a good job with a good boss – someone like his first boss in his former company.” And so that became the family’s specific prayer. “Lord, please help Daddy get a boss that is as good and kind as his first boss in his old company, in Jesus name.” One day, about a year ago from today, Yane came home from work and saw the kids and her husband in a huddle. “What’s all this about?” she asked. She heard her kids whisper excitedly, “Show it to her now!” Beni handed her a brown envelop. Yane thought it was something from the kids’ school. But no. As she slowly pulled out the paper from the envelope, she read the name of a company…then her husband’s job title… then his salary… At these, she merely nodded in satisfaction. But when she got to the bottom of the paper, she was shocked. For there was a signature. It was that of Beni’s favourite boss! To her kids’ astonishment, Yane began to cry and laugh at the same time. She could hardly believe it! Like a child, she jumped up and down with joy, much to the kids’ amusement who jumped and laughed along with her. Gabriel asked his mother, “Mom, why are you crying and laughing at the same time?” Yane saw a great opportunity to explain, “I’m crying because I’m so happy, son. Remember how you prayed for a good boss for Daddy? Look at this name,” she pointed to the paper she was holding. “We were merely asking for a boss that would be like Daddy’s old boss. But no, God gave your Daddy exactly the same boss! He answered our prayers!” That was when Gabriel began to sob. “Why are you crying?” Yane asked. “Because I’m so happy too,” the little boy said, as the entire family embraced each other. When Yane shared me this story, I knew I had to share it with you. Because all of us go through many hardships and losses. We lose our jobs, we lose our loved ones, we lose our money, we lose our friends… And sometimes, we wait and wait for the pain to go away, for the loss to be recovered. Sometimes, we wait for a long time. (Yane and Beni had to wait for two long years.) But in the end, I believe that God has prepared the very best blessing for you. Have faith. Trust. The best is yet to come!
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Red_king65 said on 18/10/09 1:05 AM |
Hi Debs thanks for viewing...BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!!.....a positive outlook in life.....yes we think of negative things that is happening but a more lesser importance should be given....but the positive once should be much more to think about......struggles are struggles...but it will just make your day miserable....happy thoughts will make you smile and move on to our life...have a gret day to you my lovable friend...my very best friend.... |
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Red_king65 said on 18/10/09 1:46 AM |
Hi Debs things in this world are different it has been my policy in life went I came here to Dubai to make my days happy always even thought is very difficult, your topic makes me smile coz I have read about how smile influece people..it is a great experience...your past stories are great also, yes it has lessons,but i feel different reading it...my life also is very colorful, but it started when i was still young and this maybe gave me an early toughness character in life..eating rice with only salt coz we can not even buy soy sauce. Need to ride a jeepny going to school without paying coz I do not have money to pay just wave my hands to the driver and say thank you. Not to eat lunch coz i do not have money to by one...only water coz it is free inside the campus..a lot of dreams which, were never been fulfilled in life...but still hoping to survive and in the end "THE BEST WILL COME"....my struggles continues...and it continues...but I will always fight back...i will never surrender....cheers |
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Red_king65 said on 18/10/09 2:15 AM |
Crew Cut indeed...it is a change for me....acual people in the office is starring at me...you see how people react to changes....its a fun day today for me to observe them...starring at me....one told me I can be a UFC fighter...see now they call me UFC Fighter hahahaha.. |
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Red_king65 said on 18/10/09 2:56 AM |
hahaha well is just Sunday and usual the work is lesser....I have had a project assigned to me for the last couple of weeks and it really made me so tired and have no time to open MDF.....but tomorrow I do not know as we have a new Boss...my current boss was transfered and he needs to make a turn over to my new boss...wheewww....another new boss and again needs to prove something to this new guy....well what to do. |
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angelic_face said on 19/10/09 4:32 AM |
haba kuya. tinatamad akong magbasa.. hehe.. niweyz, good day po;) |
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