I quit my job less than a week after I wrote “The Lord gave.” I was in a bad situation, and it reached the point where it was not worth hanging on any longer. For many months, I had been hoping things would get better. After I finally realized my hopes were in vain, I left.

Then, about a month later, out of the blue, my wife lost her job.

Last week, our sewer backed up and we found out that we need to spend a massive amount of money to get the pipe between our house and the city’s pipe replaced. If we don’t, the old clay pipe may collapse and that repair would cost double the already breathtaking amount.

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We’re both looking for new positions and have a big project in the works that will produce some income.

God has provided me with a little bit of contract work.

So in light of where we could be, we’re very blessed.

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I remembered a song that we sing with our kids in the Sunday school class we teach:

My God is so big, so strong and so mighty
There’s nothing my God cannot do
The mountains are his
The rivers are his
The skies are his handiworks too
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty
There’s nothing my God cannot do

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Paul Merrill writes here every first Friday.