What do I want to do with my life?

Before I get started, I want to say that I don't set out to just write about work every week. I've been doing it a lot lately, but things are happening that I need to talk about, and this blog exists for me to express myself. Part of that means talking about what's been going on in my life, and recently, that has tended to revolve around work.

All that to say, yes, I'm writing about work again this week.

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On Monday afternoon, I received my annual performance review at work. I've never had one before, at either of the other two places I've worked. One place was small and too informal, and the other, I worked there for only about three months.

Overall, my manager, Mike, is very happy with my work and how things are being done. He asked me if I had reconsidered my plans to eventually move on from the company. While I have become generally more patient about wanting to leave, I did have to tell Mike that I hadn't changed changed my mind. For me, working at the printing company is a job, but not what I want to make my career.

Mike asked what I truly wanted to do. I said that I wanted to do something, whatever that might be, where people could bring me a problem and that I would try to find a solution. As my friend Aaron said, I have what can be called "the gift of mercy"; if I see a need, I have to meet that need. I first realized that I really enjoyed doing this when I helped my friends Samantha and Joshua raise money for their short-term missions trip to South Africa (wow, that's going to be three years ago, this summer. Where does the time go?).

I talked with my sister Laura about it a few days later. Laura remarked that what I wanted to do was like The Godfather, wherein people would bring their problems to me and I would give them a solution. Any criminal inferences notwithstanding, it summed up what I wanted to do, in a weird way. She said I needed to figure out how to make that happen. So, I asking for prayer regarding wisdom about how to go about finding how to do what I want to do. Dad said if I was unhappy with where I was working, I needed to find another job or create it. Pray that God would grant me wisdom about how to do this.

Also, pray that I would seek to glorify God in this, and not myself. I'm already seeing that it would be way too easy to get caught up in how it would make me feel good, or how it could make me look like a good guy, when I should be seeking to glorify Him. I would love to find someone with whom I could share this goal, who would love to be able to do something like this.

And while I'm putting in the order, can she be single and godly?