Disappointment Part II

So this is an update that has been a few days in coming now.

Me and My Gang

It's been years since I last had a group of people that I spent an inordinate amount of time with. In fact, I can only think of one group in my past that I've had the honour of being a member of, and that was the people in the picture above in the summer of 2009. Alex, Carly, Amanda, Allyssa and I were the main members. This was the summer right before heading off to PRBI for the fall. We came together in the middle of summer and spent a huge amount of our free time at camp together. We even met up in Calgary that December for a "family" Christmas dinner. After that dinner cracks started to develop in the group, and while we are all still friends we are nowhere near as close as we were during that summer.

Disappointment

Today I didn't receive an e-mail that I was really hoping for. That means it's not coming at all. In October I applied for a job forest firefighting with Alberta Sustainable Resources Development. My qualifications are excellent - a year and a half as a structural firefighter, three as an Emergency Medical Responder, growing up on a farm, in my third year of post-secondary, etc. I sent in my application and received a reply. We'll e-mail candidates who have been selected to partake in the fitness test by December 12th.

But I didn't get the e-mail.

I talked with a buddy of mine today who is qualified for the job, but considerably less so on paper than me. He did get that e-mail. There is very little on paper that suggests that he would be a better option than me at working out well at this job. So what's up?

To be totally honest, I am wondering why I was passed over. I don't get why I wouldn't even be selected to go to the fitness portion of the process. The other thing that this does is pique my curiosity. What does God have in store for me if He's not even letting me get started in pursuing this idea? I don't really have a clue what my summer is going to look like now that this door has been closed.

So now I need to keep praying, keep thinking and keep seeking.

God only knows what's going to happen next.