Rantsy-fartsy

Life isn't a paradise in a golden platter, this I thought I learned early in life, yet my actions and my expectations about the future disappoint me by making me realize that I probably expect for too much. I prayed for this job and as I did, I wasn't thinking much about the salary. My goal was to become self-sufficient and I'm about to achieve that, and hopefully more, very very soon. I'm just not sure if I should feel good or bad about myself for concerning myself about the salary. It is important, but for someone like me who's just about to venture on a first job, it really isn't that important. I can blame it on the people around me who keep on saying that I deserve more but at the end of the day, it was I, and this easily influenced mind of mine, that allowed their concerns to bug me. Father God teach my heart to be contented, to work not just for the money, but to glorify you by being of service to others. More than being self-sufficient, may my future job allow me to glorify you with my finances as well, as I trust in your abundant blessings and never failing providence and faithfulness in my life and in our family.    Help me hold on to your promises, and to just be grateful each day for everything as I put Agur's prayer in my heart:

Two things I ask of you, O Lord; do not refuse me before I die; keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, "Who is the Lord?" or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Proverbs 30:7-9

I also love Paul's instruction to the Colossians that says:
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
Colossians 3:23-24

...haay, keep on hoping katy, just keep on hoping and praying. Do your best, and let God, who knows best, do the rest:) meow