Dgthiaw's Blog

Job Seeker

dgthiaw — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:52:46 +0000

There is a mystery in not knowing who will walk into your life while working as a beautician. My customers become a part of me, I find that they all have qualities, that enrich my life. I become attached to them for what they bring into my life and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve them with my expertise. Most of them stay loyal to me no matter what. I have developed many valuable relationships and I love them all. Which brings me to discuss a very recent customer, that walked into my life a few months back. For every customer that I meet, I know God has placed them in my life for one reason or another. One frosty day, out of the blue, I received a call from a young lady that was in need of a hairdo, and wanted to employ me. My clientele had slowed down, due to the nasty weather, and the current economical situation. I was in desperate need of a new and immediate customer. Her call was welcomed and right on time. Thank you Lord! Well the hairstyle that she wanted, took me about 4 hours to complete, which gave us time to get to know each other. Although she was somewhat a quiet individual, I asked her questions about what she was doing in my town, far from her own home. As she felt comfortable, she began to tell me bits and pieces about what and why she was in my town. She never revealed the whole story, but told me about a book that she had just written, and I asked if I could have a copy to read. She supplied me with a copy a few days later. The book was entitled The Journey of a Christian Job Seeker. As I began to read this book I could not put it down, it was not only the story of her struggle in doing what God had planned for her life, it was an inspiring testimony of how God works in our lives on a daily basis, as we stay in his will. From this Word, written by her, but guided by the Holy Spirit, I began to have a deeper understanding of how God works His will for our lives. Please friends when you will check-out this most touching and inspirational journal by one of my dear customers. Order the book through this link: www.journeyofachristianjobseeker.com Thanks, Dgthiaw

A Mother’s Story

dgthiaw — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:21:34 +0000

This is the story of how I love my daughter and wanted her to have every opportunity that I could have had, but just didn’t … I don’t know if it was my fault or my parents or if it was just due to the time and place I was born. Maybe due to a variety of elements. At any rate, I must mention that I do have a son, a son that I also love and treasure , but he was raised by my mother and Auntie. How that happen, I went away to college , and my mother and Auntie stepped in to care for him. They fell in love with him and didn’t want to give him back to me. I’ve thought about this for a long time and the only conclusion I could come up with was that they loved him so much that they wanted to keep him for themselves. You would think that I was a drug addict or some kind of convicted felon, when I tried to take my son away from them. Being young and not really knowing the avenues to travel to get him back after 2 or 3 years I gave up and decided to have another child to fill the void that was left,when I realized I could never be a mother figure to my son. After 14 years of suffering and longing for my son-God finally blessed me with my daughter. From the moment I saw her I fell in love with her, she became my world . Everything that I did in life from that point was to make her life be all that it could be. Before she was born I would spend hours reading to her while she was still in my womb. I became a gestational diabetic, which resulted in me having her at 7 months. She was fine, just tiny, all of her organs were fully developed and worked well. She had to stay in the hospital for about 1 month until she weighed 5 pounds. While she was in the neonatal unit, I camped-out at hospital, not leaving her side, but for a couple of hours to go home take to showers. Finally she reached her goal weight and we left the hospital. I brought her home and thus began my life as a single parent. My mother immediately tried again to steal my daughter, but older and wiser I fought her tooth and nail. She played a large roll in her life, although I never let her take charge of any decisions pertaining to her welfare. She turned my son into a spoiled child that never listened or behaved any one. He did not do any schoolwork, he was raised without discipline, and grew into a total brat by the age 14, and that’s when she wanted to give him back, and take over the life of my newborn baby girl. My mother tried hard for many years to get her, to control me and my upbringing of her, but I held my ground. My daughter thrived under my constant and diligent care. There is more to my venture into motherhood, for now I will continue this at another time . Please add your comments or questions and as time goes I will continue my motherhood story…

I’m Ashamed

dgthiaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:27:42 +0000

Some thiry years ago I met a lady while job searching. She interviewed me for a nanny position and hired me. I started going on assignments for her agency. I proved to be a dependable worker, we soon became very close friends. After about a year I moved to another profession and she eventually closed her business. We remained friends, always gossiping about this and that and always trying to supplement our income by gambling and playing the lottery. Gambling and playing the lottery was the extent of my trying to get extra money. She was involved in all kinds of illegal activities from credit card fraud to deceiving people, to shoplifting to stealing little old ladies pocket books in the mall, and various kinds of drug activities. She even stole money from the church by getting on committees and using the funds allocated to her to purchase gas for her car, food for her house, gamble with and whatever she felt like doing with it . She was very crafty with knowing how to manipulated people and situations to her advantage. As the years passed I continue to watch her do bad things to people and stood by and wonder how someone could be that cruel and still exist in the world and nothing ever really happen to her. I used to think one day she is going to get what is coming to her, for all the evil and unethical things she was doing. After some years had passed, she noticed that I had never participated in her unlawful activities, but I was always there for her to tell me what she ‘d done. She also tried to convince me to get involved I would always decline. As time passed she eventually was convicted of a couple of felonies that involved jail time , in which I cared for her kids during her incarceration. After this our lives went into different directions , but we always kept in contact, I could always detect in her tone that she was somewhat jealous of me, not because I had more than she did, which I didn’t, but my character was totally different. I characterize myself as being trustworthy and honest, peace loving and kind. She on the contrary was the complete opposite. But I still remain friends with her, listening to her messed-up opinions about everyone and everything. Always being greedy for whatever she can gain in life from food to material possessions. After about 30 years of still listening to her stories of complete corruption, she approach me with the idea of getting some foster children, I told her that my husband and I had already been thinking about doing this. She immediately became agitated, knowing I would be interested in becoming a foster parent. I of course overlooked her attitude and continued to talk about meeting with the organization that set it up. She immediately suggested that we go together for the consultation, (or it could have been me that suggested that I’m not sure), all I know it was fatal mistake. We rode together to meet with the Dept. of Human Resources to start procedures in becoming foster parents. While we were in the first meeting, there were many forms to fill out . During this process they ask for personal references, they also had a form that checked your criminal background. Immediately after she saw this request, she decided that she didn’t want to participate anymore. I continued to fill-out the papers. But when I came to the personal reference part, I know many affluent and upstanding people in this community but stupidly I wrote her name in one of the spaces, and felt confident that she would give me a glowing reference. Well my husband and I went to the foster parent classes for eight weeks anticipating our graduation date. Little did we know that behind our backs she was boiling with envy. On the day we were to have the home visit, the representative of the program called us and told us due to one of my personal references comments, they were unable to keep us in the program. I knew instantly that it was her, and did not hesitate to call and confront her, she did admit it, but said she didn’t feel I would be a good foster parent because she had heard me scream at my daughter before, I was livid. I immediately went on a rampage trying to defend myself against her, and in the process I was convicted of a misdemeanor, for harassing communication. I am completely and totally ashamed of what I did by venting my frustrations to her in e-mails and over the phone. But now I know what God wanted me to do all along, to alienate myself from this monster. The bottom line is- young people when you see someone doing wrong don’t stay around being entertained by their evilness. Now at this late date in my life I let her victimize me too. Please post comments. Dgthiaw

Hello world!

dgthiaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:17:38 +0000

What a Great day it is !!!! Today is the first day for the rest of your life…. Be glad in it…and may all your desires be accomplished on this magnifacent Day…

Dgthiaw