I keep forgetting

As long as I've been doing this, how is it that I almost forgot to write tonight's post? I'm sitting here trying to think of something to write, but I'm drawing a blank.

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Okay, now I know what I can write about, tonight. Last week, I wrote that I wanted to change my schedule at work so that I could attend a Bible study. This past week, I found out from my manager that they couldn't approve my specific request to work earlier on Thursdays. I was very disappointed, but I knew when I asked that it was a long shot. My manager told me to consider moving permanently to either first shift or third shift.

I didn't want to move to third shift at all. Firstly, it still wouldn't allow me to allow me to attend a Bible study as I would have to get to work by 9:00 pm. Doing that would preclude attending a Bible study at all, so moving to third shift would be pointless. Secondly, I have no desire at all to work overnight. I would make more money, but I don't like my job enough to want to do that.

Admittedly, I wasn't sure I wanted to move to first shift. Doing that means starting work at 5:30 am. I was resistant to the idea at first, but the more I thought (and prayed) about it, the more I warmed to the idea. After all, at my last job, I had to be up at about 5:00 am to get the bus to Glendale by 7:00. When I was working there full-time, we started at 5:00.  I can do it again, but I wasn't sure I wanted to, at first.

We've been praying as a family about this, as visiting the Doulos West L.A. Bible study showed how much I missed being a part of one, and i think I needed to see what I'd be willing to do to be a part of one again. May the Lord answer my continued prayer that this would be so, and that i would graciously (and thankfully) accept whatever His desire may be.