Unexpected Blessings

    "This week I was most blessed by..." was a journal prompt I found on Pinterest earlier this week, and within seconds I had my answer.

    Last Sunday, as hubby and I drove into our church's parking lot, he told me that his dad had a friend whose son went to school for the video game designer program that my hubby is now pursuing. He said that this friend's son, who went to school years ago, had a bad experience but didn't remember the specifics about why it was bad. My father-in-law wanted hubby to meet this friend, learn about his son's experience and get specific information about the program.

    As soon as hubby told me this, my defences went up, and the enemy gave me some less-than-kind thoughts toward my father-in-law. Thoughts that I have since apologized for. 

    We head into the church, and I felt very hesitant about this upcoming conversation. Simply because I do not want anyone to derail my hubby from his newfound career path. A path that has been on his heart and mind for a very long time but has been unable to pursue it. Which is a story for another day.

    Anyways, the service gets started, and I'm still feeling very hesitant. So I pray. I tell God what is on my heart. Even though He already knows. I tell him I'm feeling hesitant, and I ask for His will to be done in this conversation.

    After the service, we head over and meet this new friend and ask about his son's experience. Within the first two sentences that this man says, all my hesitant and negative thoughts and feelings wash away. I joyfully watched my husband light up as we learned about this man's son's experience. Turns out that the program was not exactly what the man's son wanted, but exactly what my husband wants. You see, there are two paths to go down within this program, and originally, before hubby and I met, he went down the "wrong" one. Unknowingly at the time.

    The way the program is marketed to future students is not very accurate. The schools that are offering this program do not use very descriptive language, and as a result, both my hubby and this other young man went down the wrong path by accident. Here's the punch line friend. Both of these young men should have been in the "other guys" lane. One lane is for computer programing, and the other is for video game design. The kicker is that they are both called "computer programming." So you can see how this confused both young men, leading them to both drop out.

    Through this conversation, we learned that it was simply the "wrong" path and hubby and I are more excited than ever for him to pursue this dream job and return to school next fall. Of course, neither of them was on the "wrong" path because it was all part of God's plan for both of them.

    A few weeks ago, after a therapy session, hubby came to me and told me that he wanted to be a video game designer and wanted to start pursuing this God-given desire. I started singing the hallelujah chorus. We have known for a long time that this is what he wanted, but his experience with it the first time when we went to school and went down the "wrong" path through him off course for a long time and gave him some trauma.

So when he came to me a few weeks ago and said it was time to get back on track and that he had finally realized that he wants to be a video game designer, I was thrilled. Since then, he has been trying to figure out if he wants/needs to return to school and what that would look like. The conversation we had with this new friend answered all these questions and more. It encouraged us to pursue this new path and gave us a place to start.

    Walking into church last Sunday, I felt hesitant and on guard, and I walked out feeling blessed with a weight lifted off my shoulders.

    It was so encouraging to watch my hubby light up about his future career, and that there is a way to make it happen. We are very excited to head down this new path toward his career. 

    

    It amazes me how one simple sentence from someone without background knowledge of my hubby could mean so much. God used that unsuspecting man to encourage and instruct hubby and me on the right path. God is good and works in mysterious ways, friend. I went into that conversation expecting one answer and came out with an entirely different one. For that, I am so thankful.

    Hubby has been working very hard with his therapist over the last few months and has made amazing progress, which I am proud of and blessed by. The night he told me he wanted to design video games, I thought, "Sweet, we are back on track." Then when we walked out of that conversation, I thought, "And now we have direction and some ideas of how to make it work."

    I pray friend, that this post finds you well and blesses you in whatever way you need today.

Happy Sunday

God Bless

~Hannah

God used this man and our conversation to "bridge" the gap between my husband and his career path.