It's my turn

Today was a... I guess you could say a life changing day.  Today I accepted a position within an industry that I love but for a salary that scares the shit out of me.  The position is a fitness counselor and the salary is primarily based on commission; the opportunities for growth within the company are endless and there is no cap on the commission I can make, so the ball is really in my hands.  But do you know how scary this is?  Just like everyone else in the real world I have financial obligations that hover pretty close to my current salary, to say there isn't much room for error is an understatement.  But now I have accepted a position where the base salary is half of my current salary and all other income will be obtained through commission.  It's pretty damn scary and pretty damn exciting "at the same damn time" lol  

When the position was offered (well it really wasn’t, they spoke as if I had the job from the beginning) my first thought was "I can’t make this move, not for this amount of guaranteed money" but then something happened, I began to think about the story of a drowning man asking for God to save him.   You may have heard the story before, a man is stranded in the ocean and he prays to God for help and to save him.  As the man is praying he lets three boats pass him by because he is waiting for a miracle from God. The man ends up drowning and at the pearly gates he questions God and asks him why did he not save his life, where was the miracle he prayed for?  God answers the man and says; well I sent three boats...  "I sent three boats" how often have we missed the blessings of the Lord because it was not packaged and delivered in a way we thought would be appropriate?  Now I'm not saying that my experience today was a miracle from God but I am saying that I have been praying for some time for a way out of my current field of work... And I have also turned down jobs before because I thought the initial salary was too low only to go back to a job that I hate and pray that the Lord relieve me of my position. But not this time, this time I decided to leap, not blindly but guided by my faith in HIM and my faith in me. 

In life your circumstances are largely of your own creation, the good, the bad, and the ugly all can be attributed to one major source, YOU.  So as I embark on this new chapter of my life I am certain of only two things; God has blessed me with an opportunity to grow and this has to work...

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like hard work" Thomas A. Edison