17 years Trim Tab Event
July 8, 2013 Leave a comment
“Better is little with the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord than great and rich treasure and trouble with it.” Proverbs 15:16 AMP,
“Reverent-a feeling of profound respect for someone”
“Worshipful-showing adoration”
How do you turn the ‘direction’ of a giant cruise liner? You turn the rudder left or right. How do you turn a ‘rudder’ of a giant ship? They use trim tabs. Read more http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab
Trim tabs are small mechanism attached to the huge rudder to leverage the movement of a larger system. They don’t actually turn the rudder directly, they turn the “trim tabs” to execute the change of direction of the ship.
Today is a special day for me and my wife. We have those “trim tab moment” again and I am in awe. In 1996, we moved to Round Rock, Texas from the nearby US Army Base called Ft Hood. My 4 years enlistment in the Army ended and I just found a new job at AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, a semiconductor company who was the leading competitor of the giant Intel Corp. Britta found a new job at Round Rock Medical Center. Even up to this day, RRMC is so special to me because we found this hospital by accident driving around at night in the densely wooded road at 620. It was a gift to us that we discovered this new workplace for her. I already had job lined up at that time but my wife did not. Also, my youngest son was born in this hospital on August of 1996, 17 years ago.
For some unknown intervention, her employment at RRMC ended by surprise after 17 years and that is why today is a special day because we are starting over, Day000000.
I used to be bothered by “trim tab events” but when you worship and pray to an all powerful, all knowing God, I think I don’t have to worry at all. God allowed something to happen to us for a very special reason. Instead today I will say to myself “let’s go Lord, I am excited of where this family is going with the change.”
I welcomed this adjustment of Yours and I thank you for not letting us be so satisfied with status quo.
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