Bo­bie-lee Dixon

Have you ever been saved by a phone call? For those of you who know what I'm talk­ing about, re­trace your steps. Re­mem­ber when you were pray­ing for that thing to come through but it seemed to be tak­ing for­ev­er? But just when you were about to give up and you said, God maybe this is not for me, the phone rang and on the oth­er end it was some­one telling you your loan was ap­proved. Or how about that time when you were won­der­ing how you were go­ing to pay your mort­gage be­cause you lost your job? And just when the bank was about to seize your home, a phone call from that com­pa­ny you ap­plied to called to let you know that you got the job. When that hap­pens those ten bad things that oc­curred over the past week al­most seem non-ex­is­tent and you be­gin to count your bless­ings.

When the door opens

This year I de­cid­ed to go back to school. A bit of anx­i­ety was ex­pe­ri­enced as I thought it would be com­plete­ly dif­fi­cult to jug­gle work, study life and tak­ing care of my 13-month-old daugh­ter, so I signed up to do a diplo­ma in mar­ket­ing un­til she gets a bit old­er when I can have more time and more en­er­gy to fo­cus on do­ing my de­gree. For­get­ting I ap­plied on­line to a Uni­ver­si­ty to study com­mu­ni­ca­tions, the diplo­ma was a done deal as I am al­ready half way through the syl­labus. How­ev­er, re­cent­ly I re­ceived a phone call from the Uni­ver­si­ty in­form­ing me that I had been ac­cept­ed. I pon­dered a lit­tle still won­der­ing if I could make it through the task ahead, but then I re­alised this op­por­tu­ni­ty was one of the doors I've been ask­ing God to open for some­time now, so I'm just go­ing to go for it.

You see, there are sea­sons in every­one's life and you bet­ter keep watch for them be­cause when they ar­rive and you don't recog­nise or fail to see them, in the blink of an eye they can be gone. Time may tar­ry but it will wait on no one. To­day is your bless­ing ei­ther you po­si­tion your­self to re­ceive it or not. I have de­cid­ed to take ad­van­tage of this bless­ing that has come at such a time. I be­lieve God knows what's best for me and so this door I will not close.

Shalom!