By RTF Staff Writer Kalli Simmerman

“We’ll no longer be needing you.” When I read that email, my stomach just clenched. Only a few days before I had been informed that I was being let go from my other job due to budget cuts in the school. Now, within a matter of two days, I was completely unemployed.
Since I’m living on my own, the stress of the situation quickly became overwhelming. I didn’t know what I was going to do or how I was going to be able to pay bills. I broke down but was quickly calmed by the swift action of a good friend who helped me settle in for a night of full of ice cream and Disney movies.

Two weeks had passed and still no word from any of the workplaces I had put in applications at. I had literally gone everywhere around my small college town but no one seemed to be hiring. There were days when the stress hit me like a freight train and I had thoughts of giving up and moving back home (where there seemed to be a lot more job opportunities anyway). But then there were days when I could’ve cared less. It was nice to have some time off from the endless strain of having a job and having to put up with the rude and ungrateful people who came along with it.

People kept telling me that God will provide. And I believed that. He’d done so many times before, and I knew that if I would just be patient and wait, the perfect job opportunity would come along eventually. Now I’m about to be a waitress. And while it’s not exactly what I had in mind, I know that something good may come out of it. Who knows? Maybe it’ll turn out to be exactly the kind of job I’ve been looking for.

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Kalli Simmerman has been writing ever since God called her to become an author at the early age of eight. Due to some amazing connections, she has had the privilege of being published in several books and magazines as well as contributing to Real Teen Faith.