Hard day at work

I still remember the day, it was Monday.  It started out like any other day until there came the announcement the CEO was to hold a meeting at 8 for all available employees.  We all figured it wouldn't be good news, we were right.  About an hour after the meeting our boss came in to tell us what the meeting was about.  The hospital was going to lay off about ten percent of its workforce.  So 70 people were going to lose their job that day.  I was a little nervous, we had just laid off a worker about a month before this. 

We were told there were no foreseen cuts coming and then we get this.  We were all worried it was going to be us.  However, our boss told us the people being laid off were not at work.  We all started to think about who it could be.  It happened to be my friend that lost his job.  His hours were going to be cut in half, there was no way it would be enough money to support his family.  He decided to take the severance package and look for work elsewhere. 

Not only did we lose that one extra person but another employee is quiting after Christmas and we are not re-filing the position.  So those of us still at work are going to have to make up for it.  We are all expected to do more work in the same amount of time.  It's going to be stressful.

Fixing

Doesn't it feel good to fix something that once was broken?  I was looking on craigslist about a week ago at the free category to see what there was.  I found a free TV that just stopped working.  Lizzy and I drove the few miles to pick it up.  The first thing I did when I got home was open it up and take a look inside.  There wasn't power to the TV so I figured that should be the first place I look. 

Indeed, there was a fuse that appeared to be blown.  I went to our Christmas lights outside and took the extra fuse from there and placed it in the TV.  Guess what?  The TV turned on and worked great for a day or so.  I was surprised when the TV worked so I wasn't surprised when it stopped working.  I looked up the original fuse on google and found that it was a 4 amp 250 volt slow blow fuse.  Talk about confusing.

I entered this information on ebay found fuses for sale and purchased them.  They arrived yesterday and I wasted not time.  I put the new fuse in the TV and it works again.  The fuse happens to be bigger in size than the orignal one but seems to work.

The TV was once unwanted put up on a site to get rid of.  Sometimes that is how we are, we are what others consider trash.  We have sinned, we have failed, the world sees us imperfect, useless.  However, God comes along to pick us up and make us new.  This isn't to say that I am God by any means.  This is simply an analogy for how God looks at us.

He views us by what is on the inside, not what is on the outside.  The world judges by outer appearnces while God looks to the heart.