Sarah Nyhan

A continuation of my attempt to finish a book I started in December 2017. Posting chapters in an attempt to organize it all and finish.

I had really high expectations since my boss at the new job was a woman from the church. But things didn’t go smoothly. Attending the same church did not mean we were on the same page with everything else. But I was hopeful that things would eventually work out. And I was determined to stick it out especially since this was a connection with someone at the church.

That was my mindset when another church member called me one day while I was on my lunch break. She asked if I’d be available to start coming over to her house to watch her child full-time during the day.

Again, it didn’t make sense. This was someone I knew in passing but had never hung out with. I think the preacher may have referred me to her, even though he, like Paula, probably also knew I was working full-time.

Did these people think I had no life? I had to go to my job and work to pay my bills. Right?

So I told her no, that I wasn’t available. And that was that. Finished my lunch break and went back inside.

Or so I thought. To my surprise, my boss showed up immediately after I clocked back in from lunch. Without any prior conversations in this regard, she told me that she had decided that exact day would be my last day. That it wasn’t working out. And she offered for me to stay and finish the day or clock out immediately. I wasn’t really fired; there were never any formal write-ups. But that was my last day. Just like that.

I was in shock! What just happened?!

So I called back the other lady from church and told her that God must really love her because I no longer had a job and was now available to babysit full-time for her during the day.

What was God doing?!

So I basically moved into this family’s house for awhile to help them out because there were special circumstances. Periodically I’d go back to Julie’s place; I technically still had a space there. But I was over at the other family’s house most of the time.

I had been saving up for a car of my own while I was working for money. But now my savings were going to pay my bills since I wasn’t really getting paid for all the time I was spending helping out this family. Which was fine with me in one sense because it seemed obvious to me that God wanted me there. So I was relying on God to provide. And it was supposed to be a short-term situation.

But right as things were wrapping up with them, the couple who had been so generously letting me use their car now needed it back I think to let a relative use it. Totally understandable. They had already gone above and beyond. But what was I going to do now with no car?

It was around this time that my mother decided to buy a new car. She asked me if I wanted to buy her old car. I told her I was interested but that I couldn’t afford to pay her anytime soon. I had blown through my savings and didn’t have full-time work yet.

Well, much to my surprise, she ended up basically just giving me the car instead of selling it to me. I felt bad about this; I wanted to pay her. But again, it was God showing off for me right when I needed it.