August 31st

August 31^st was a big day for me. I was working as a vendor for Centurylink and as a security officer for Northwest Security Service. The day before, I was doing an overnight shift for NWSS. While on a rove, I accidentally dropped my flashlight on my left foot. The flashlight was a 3 cell, C cell Maglite. Those are heavy! At first I was upset but ended up being thankful.

The next day, Aug 31^st, That morning I was on another overnight shift. I was going to head out on a rove of the building and parking garage. I was prompted to wait 10 minutes. Which was cool with me because of the foot injury. After the 10 minutes, I headed out to the parking garage. I was moving slowly. I saw a car race to the building and into the parking garage where it stopped. It hit me hard that if I had left when I was going to, I would have been in the path of the speeding car. I’m thankful that I followed that prompting.

That night I went to a friend’s concert before heading into my next overnight shift. As I was leaving the show, I realized I had to go to the bathroom very bad. I pulled into a Shell station, it was the closest. I felt the Spirit warning me strongly not to go in there. I ignored it thinking, I need to go to the bathroom. I’ll just go in, use it, and leave. I parked and went inside. Despite the Spirit’s continuous warning not to go in there. I was greeted by the attendant who creepily called me sweetheart. I told him that I needed to use the restroom and he pointed me in the correct direction.

I felt uneasy as I got closer. I could hear Him telling me not to go in there. I told myself I was just going to use the bathroom and leave. I went in and instantly felt kind of scared. It smelled like something had died in there. As I was using the facilities, I noticed something red suddenly on my shirt. I thought that was weird. There was more, dripping on me and I realized it was blood. I stood and went to the mirror and my nose was bleeding heavily.

I started freaking out. I was trying to make it stop bleeding, but nothing was working. My head began to pound and I started to feel light-headed to the point I thought I was going to pass out. I heard the Spirit order me to get out now and run. I stuffed tissue up my nose, washed my hands, and went to make a quick exit.

The attendant saw me and sounded angry. He said I was in there a long time and stood up. I heard the Spirit order me to run and run now. I apologized and bolted. I ran to my car, got inside and sped off. Once I was close to work, the bleeding stopped and the headache subsided. I still felt scared. I heard the Spirit reprimand me, telling me, when I tell you not to do something, don’t do it. Then tried to comfort me with warmth and assurance that everything will be alright. By the time I got to work, I was calmer. I don’t know why my nose spontaneously started bleeding or what I ran away from, but I am glad that I didn’t stick around to find out.

The night was not over. I was still shaken up and considering whether or not to go to my day job. I had been at Qwest, now Centurylink for almost 5 years and I had just started NWSS a few weeks prior. It was extremely taxing working both jobs. Doing Centurylink during the day and NWSS overnight. It was too much. While I was sitting at work, the following revelation came to me. That I needed to quit Centurylink or I would soon be fired. That once I leave, people will be gradually leaving and the office will be closed, likely by the end of the year. I was getting into a lot of trouble in the call center and I wanted out anyway. I was hesitant because I was finally becoming financially ahead. I was prompted that everything will be alright. That I just needed to have faith in our Heavenly Father and things will be Ok. Every time I questioned the idea, I would receive the same message. I eventually followed and handed in my two weeks notice. I was telling all my work friends the message I received and tried to encourage them to follow suit with leaving. Many didn’t believe me and the rest were just creeped out.

Almost two weeks later, I left. I felt so light and happy. I called NWSS to open up my availability. A few days later, the site I was working at closed. I had no work for the next two weeks. I began to question the decision I made and question the prompting I was given. Each time I did so, I received the message of, No you did the right thing, you just need to have faith.

I stuck in there and gradually work started to pick up. I started working almost everyday. I ended up being glad that I had the two weeks off. Something I realized later on, while I was busy doing both jobs, I kept wishing for time off and all the wonderful things I could do if I had the time. Then He gave me the time and while I was home, all I wanted to do was to be busy working again. I didn’t take advantage of the time and had not partaken any of the things I said I was going to do.

Currently work is come and go. I try to appreciate all the time I do have. Thankful for when I am working and thankful for when I am home. On top of that, I was recently speaking with a past co-worker who is still at Centurylink and she told me that what I said would happen is happening. When I left, there was 75 people employed. Now there is 45. As well as Centurylink is talking about shutting down the office and have another one of their vendors do it. The other vendor could do the same work at better quality and for less money. Kind of freaked me out when she told me that. It was reaffirmation that the Spirit had told me what was going to happen.