Tag: How to do something while you waiting

Interesting greeting, panic, all my thoughts?,where is my faith? doubting, grace…

It’s interesting how the Lord works! Ten years ago before I moved back to Oslo area the Lord gave me some hints about why I needed to move to Oslo area. What I needed to wait for, when living there, before being able to move back to the west coast.

Sunday April 18th, I went through some online preaching I haven’t listen to just “added” to my list to “some day I will start to listen to them”. And in one of the podcast’s they had questions in the end. One of the question where “what are you waiting on?” And I thought, this is perfect to this blog! What are you waiting on,haven’t the Lord answered your question or is it something else you waiting on? You who following my blog.

Why do we need to Wait on things?

Two of my closest girl friends needed to get married and become pregnet or even have a child before I could move. An interesting sentence   from the Lord to recive. What about me? Should I wait even longer before I met “my hubby”???

An other thing was that the Lord needed to work within me and with me. Which He has. As one of the things ” a hubby “. When I was 19 y.o. I told everyone who asked me about life that I didn’t wanna have my own kids, which probably was a bit wierd to most people,sadly most of them were Christians. ” it will past ” they said. Like it was a cold or something… 😔. But I haven’t ever had a feeling of “need to become pregnet” becauce I would rather have fosterkids or helping families who needs it with their kids when the time comrs for that. I just wanted ” a hubby “.

All about Believing.

It was a new journey a head of me. And I have to say a lot of things has happend with me, my faith and my friends those years.

We are all waiting on something.

A short story from those last ten years…

In 2011 I had to find something to do…

In 2012 I took an other course becauce I could not go back and work in kindergarten after November 2010, when I injured my back.

2013 I had a knee surgery and eleven months of physiotherapy. I had to learn to walk again.

In 2014, still no work, still a bad back. New longer course. But it didn’t leed to a job…

2015 – 2017, different types of administration and Hotel. BUT in 2015 I asked the Lord about moving and the thing I recived was “wait”. And in 2017 one of my closest friends got married. Was this an other sign?

2018 the year of many changes! My first job I kind of liked for 5 months. In May I started the fifth course (during those last seven years) which actually was of interest!!   May 18th, the other close friend got married 😍😍. Now I knew time would not be to far away for ” the move back to the west coast ” In August I got my foot in to my first propper work in years 😊🤩😊. The first school job, was this the job I had “been looking for all those years of waiting ?” It was a open door from the Lord. But it wasn’t ” the job “. I also knew other things needed to get in place…

2019 came, I got a new job, where I am now. And I know the Lord wanted me here.

In 2020 came Corona and my contract was extended until 2021. 🤩. I moved from Oslo community to Bærum community. A start on getting out of Oslo, the City I never liked but stayed there becauce the Lord wanted to use me there. In March I started as a janitor beside my orginal job. The first girl friend got pregnet (YAY the move getting even more closer).

The Autumn of 2020.

This last fall (Autumn-20) I knew that I wouldn’t stay in Bærum community longer then next summer (which is now). I also recived a new sentence.

Those two girl friends are now married 🤩. And I have been applying for jobs in Rogaland community since february 🤪 still no job. And now have I started to get panic!! Where will I move? Where will I work?? Gaaaa! The whole point of all this becauce I want and need to work more than 70%. I have so much panic and start to think “was I so wrong understanding the greetings?” Was it just me, who wants to move back to the only place I ever felt like home in Norway? am I moving back to Rogaland community? Or not?

I need to move out where I am living now July 31st!! It’s not to late to get a job theoreticly but I am starting to doubt on the whole thing…😔 the panic is getting bigger. God give me one interview with a job-offer!! Or give me a hint on what I am doing wrong!!

I don’t know what to do more than apply.

But, is the Lord on my side in this?? I’m panicking and have started to doubt. I just want to cry!! is the Lord guiding me steps? I have been trusting the Lord so far but now?

I am missing to have a propper housechurch and meet & pray with, if not in person at least online. I have this last year lost some part of my faith becauce of where I live and the Corona. 😔😔😔. I miss the Church IMI in Stavanger, Rogaland. It feels like I have lost myself a bit to… I don’t know where to go, look, do…

On the other hand has GOD used me and blessed me a lot this last year…

Re-posting. One hour at Nav.

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Today I had to go to Nav but before that I had to make some copies.. (Nav – a member of the government that helps most types of people who lost their jobs for various reasons or who have retired or who have been disabled.) to deliver some papers. When I finally got there, it was a queue as normal. It doesn’t really matter what time you have to be at Nav it’s always a queue, short or long.  I came to this location (not “my Nav” I usually go to)

When I entered the room, it was No. 057 desk 3. Ten minutes later it was still no. 057. So waiting without the queue getting smaller or visibly shorter is a little interesting. To sit there without hearing the “pledge” to just see more people coming was a bit odd.

“I have to say that there was relatively good music in the speakers.”

While I was sitting there, I thought they had quite good music in the speakers. Before the first thing my Nav office does not have music for the second, it was one of the few things I heard music inside a Nav office. I was the only one who did something. I wrote blog posts in my notes app. Everyone sits quiet waiting nicely for their turn in the queue system. Some go for a walk in the room, probably just to move about a bit. Someone goes through their papers. Some of those who actually work there come and go. The time now is so much that the people who work here come from the rooms, and speak out to everyone that “now we close about fifteen minutes.” As if we who were there had not realized it. The clock does not stand still!

The majority of all who expected you were from Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe plus me, which is originally Sweden. The women do not sit on the same side as the men. We sit on hard wooden benches modern with a little round table in light wood color. The room is bright and feels open at the same time as it feels empty. Meanwhile, I hear the person sitting on the desk working is being annoyed by the person who asks questions because he who works there does not get the answer he wants. Is it typical Nav? Maybe. Not my opinion but it happens for sure often.

 

“Now, queue numbers disappear from the queue-board. Is it because the time has been 14:39?“

The queue numbers disappear from the queue-board. Is it because the time has been 14:39? To have patience is the same thing as the letters NAV stands for. Not a problem for me though. At 14:46 does the queue number show up on the queue-board again and start to roll again, and fast. Suddenly it says 062 and then it stops, like it would not start again or ever. Someone push through to get ahead of the queue and ask for how long they should wait when “there are not so many left here and we have No. 072″. How did they think now, was I thinking. I have No. 067, shall I just sit here and wait until my number gets up on the board or should I to let them know “I’m still waiting?” In the meantime I just sat there kept waiting. I had lots of time.

While I’m sitting there, it turns out that there have become many more foreign “at my Nav office” too. Probably in all the offices of Nav in Oslo. And then I think, how many of them are actually receiving help when they get here? And how many of them comes here every day? Are they here all day, to try to get some help?

I have to say I am very pleased with Nav Ullern which is “my Nav office”. I have so far got all the kind of help I needed even if some things takes a bit longer time than it should. But help I get.

One hour at Nav…

/Mia-Simone.  September 2015 // November 2017.