A prayer regarding ... my job

God I need a favor.

I need you to close tight the doors where I will not fully walk in your will and purpose. I need for you fling open the doors that you want me to walk through.

*sigh*

I know you are teaching me to lean, listen, and trust you more. To follow with a devotion and intensity that I have as of yet have not done. But concerning my job situation...am I to have a career? or a job? what matters to you? and how does that flesh out with regards to a job description?

What matters to you:
1. YOU, GOD, first above all
2. Obey... your laws, my husband, and the law
3. Love others the way Jesus loved/loves me
4. Your priorities to be my priorities

I. Worship the Lord God with and in everything and have no other idols/gods
II. Husband (serve, support, love, and obey)
III. Immediate Family and Family of Origin (serve, support, love, and obey)
IV. Family in Christ (serve, support, and love)
V. Reach the spiritually lost and dying . . . . . . . .


there is pride involved in pursuing a practice management career... me proud about me......therefore, I would need to pursue it with great caution and humility...

God you have created me to be the me that I am.

I am silly and outgoing, but serious, looking for meaning in everything.

I have a passion for anatomy, physiology and healing, a huge heart for children, a care taking and nurturing character, a love for people, a need for connection to others, a devotion to excellence, a love of learning, a head that is well suited for administrative duties, a driven need to do things RIGHT (correctly and with righteousness).

I have a need to belong and contribute to the family, communities, and teams to which I belong.

I have strong tendencies to be all or nothing. I am intense in nearly everything. I love intensely.

I work intensely focusing on an excellent and a pleasing outcome. But I can just as easily be intensely distracted. I chill out almost as intensely, when I stop, I stop.

I need peaceful moments regularly spaced throughout my life. The outdoors ministers peace and joy to me.

I find great success in doing the little things well. While pride shouts accomplish the big things, it is truly an abundant number of little things done RIGHT that really pleases me.

I don't want to spend a lot of time and money on things if it takes away from my ability to make meaningful connections in the now.

I like a full, busy life of serving and working with others.

I want the time to be devoted to my family and my church. I want those moments and actions to carry in practice a depth of meaning that shows in the time and energy applied to them, but reaps its best fruit in peace, joy, and in very real, deep interpersonal connections.

I want to be a support and relief for my husband, as I support us in a growing fashion financially, and as I take on the true and full devotion to household manager. I want to do that well, faithfully, and with grace and abundant love. I want to be a good helpmate and friend to my husband.

I also want to be a secure strong loving friend and mother to my children.

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How do I turn those things into a job?
Do I only look at only the attributes listed here?
Is there more?
Am I over thinking it, as I tend to do?

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Lord how do I use these two things...
the who I am and your priorities to find a good job placement.
Teach me. Give me wisdom and discernment.

If the STX is not right, make it clear.
Help me obey when you lead. Open my eyes and help me see. Open my ears and help me hear. You said time and again, "He who has ears, let him hear."

"Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both."

I will, "Apply your/my heart to instruction and your/my ears to words of knowledge."
"Speak Lord, for your servant is listening."

And forgive myselfishness here Lord. For there are many who's names and needs need to be called out before you. HEALING, STRENGTH, COMFORT to those so precious to me and YOU. In the precious powerfuly name of Jesus Christ my Lord - AMEN