{"id":3210,"date":"2011-07-15T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2011-07-15T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:27:00","slug":"life-detours-and-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/life-detours-and-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, Detours and Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So this week has been interesting to say the least\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been out of college since 1999 and by the grace of God have always been gainfully employed. I\u2019d managed to avoid or side-step a number of lay-offs and company closings, but my streak of dodging bullets ended this week.\u00a0 As to be expected I\u2019ve struggled with some mixed emotions.\u00a0 The one thing that I know my faith has given me in a time like this is hope. It\u2019s perhaps for this reason that I was spared this struggle in the past.<\/p>\n

Hopeful might be the last adjective you\u2019d expect a husband and father of two to have after he\u2019s been laid off, but let me explain. Normally I would never compare myself or any of my life experiences with those of the saints, expect maybe St. Augustine before his conversion but hear me out.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever studied the lives of the saints you\u2019d know that their lives were never easy. As a matter of fact most of them had very hard and quite painful lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s at these lowest points of our lives that we find ourselves the closest to our Lord.\u00a0 When everything is sunshine and roses we can sometimes forget that everything we have and everything we are is because of him.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorite lines from Scripture have always been the ones about how God takes care of us:<\/p>\n

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? \u2013 Matt 6:25-27<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In times of struggle I\u2019ve always looked to this passage and understood that God will take care of me and my family. It may not always be in the way that we are used to or how we want it, but He will be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019d managed to avoid or side-step a number of lay-offs and company closings, but my streak of dodging bullets ended this week.\u00a0 As to be expected I\u2019ve… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4,90,89],"tags":[50,2890,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-3210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-faith-blog","8":"category-family","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-vocations","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40196,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/building-you-faith-and-habit\/","url_meta":{"origin":3210,"position":0},"title":"Building You: Faith and Habit","author":"Trenton Henrichson","date":"June 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to have to start this blog with a small confession. 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