God has answered my prayers again–and I didn’t even know it at first. You see, I am back in the Wood. Through a strange turn of events, my contract suddenly ended. The company decided that in order to look really really good for an impending buy out, they should lay off a small percentage of their employees world wide. Naturally, before they could do that, they canceled virtually all of their contracts–including mine.

Little did I know that as I was writing the article above, God was already on the move. My concerns about being stuck in Cubicle Purgatory had already been addressed by God.

My manager is working to get a new contract for me, but he noted that it could take three to six months before they will re-open any contracting doors.

I am back in the Wood Between the Worlds.

Yet again another direction setting move on God’s part that even an idiot with the IQ of a…. well, you get the idea.

In a way it feels quite good to get my freedom back. Yet the sudden departure from a rigid schedule has been a bit of a shock to my system. Now that I am back to a much more free form, loose, unstructured day, I will need to carefully choose my goals, plan ways to meet those goals and be discipled enough to still to the plans.

And those “ponds.” All of those “ponds” (a.k.a. opportunities). I need to figure out which ones God wants me to pursue and which ones would be “rabbit trails” or, for that matter, which ones would be self indulgent, and all that.

It will take a little time to get back to thinking for myself and making choices based not on the external pressure of a job but on the internal values that say, “find the next place God wants you to be in.”