The Great Provision

Last week, one of my students was coming really late so I ended up chatting with some of my coworkers at the hakwon i work at. The conversation somehow led to how I got the job there to just how I got jobs throughout college, up until now. As I was telling them (sadly without the God part =/) it just dawned upon me how God has been so good to me to provide me with these jobs whenever I needed.

Other than tutoring, I never had a real job until the sophomore year in college. I am not in a position to get ANY jobs (if you know my situation), so getting even a part-time job has been hard for me. But just at the right time, when I thought that I should really start looking, I went to my church's college group retreat. There, it was during small group time or so, when I shared about how I think I should pray about gettng a job, Christine, who had just graduated from UCLA, suggested that I should work at her previous job. I don't quite remember all the details, but I ended up working there for a whole year. I hated the job mostly because it was so unfitting for me(beauty supplies?! me?!) and inconvenient (at least 20 min walking 20 min bus ride one way =/), but it defintely gave much alone time to think about different things and realize different things...

I quit the job the summer after sophomore year since I wasn't going to be in LA. I ended up tutoring a bunch of juniors SAT (hahah i can't even do that now) at this church I went to missions with. Then it was time for me to start looking again. Before school started I went to USC KCM's first general meeting, and there, met Billy, a friend from UCLA. I was talking about how I need to find a job and he told me he knows a friend that's working in westwood. So he calls her, and guess what? It was Angelica with whom I had a class in freshman year! So I ended up working at the clothing store in westwood. Again, that was NOT my specialty but without overwhelming difficulty I managed to work 2 full days per week for 2 years!! The pay was better than the previous job plus it only took half the time to get to work. And my boss was this super nice korean ahjumma, who bought me lunch all the time and gave me free clothes =P

Well, once I grauduated it was time to look again. I was thinking of tutoring and at my internship (which was pretty crazy connection as well if I think about it now mb ill write about this one later) Rosa SSN asked me if I wanted my advertisement on this korean ahjumma website.. The very next day I got a call from Reading Town, my current work, and here I have been for over a year now!

Ahh.. OKay that was crazy and I get overwhelmed at His provision AND His faithfulness AND His power despite the circumstances. But what I have been realizing more is His provision for me through the CROSS. Without the cross, I cannot go to God period. There just absolutely is no other way!! How would my life be if I couldn't go to Him? I don't know.. So for providing the way to the Father, I thank Jesus Christ. It's so strange that that simple truth is hitting me NOW. And I'm sure there's soooooooooooooooooo much more of those "simple truths" I am not aware of yet.