Are You a Job in Modern Times?
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Job knew all about loss and grief far beyond
your normal expectations. We expect to bury
our parents but not our children. In a short
period of time, Job lost all his children and their
spouses, servants, and his entire livestock. Vera
Simpson Gaines knows about loss and trials.
Veras belief in God carried her through many
years of abuse and tons of health problems. Vera
carries you through her losses and guides you
through the scriptures that supported her in her
darkest days. She instructs her readers to claim Gods promises and trust in His ability to carry you through what storm you are in.
Are You A Job in Modern Times ? is an inspirational and encouraging
book that will leave you with a new outlook on life and emphasises how much God loves and cares for you.
Vera Simpson Gaines
Author Vera Simpson Gaines tries her hand at creative fiction. Most of Gaines writings have been spiritual and inspirational books but The Gypsy Dance is a harbinger for those who seek love on the internet. Gaines warns people to do background checks before agreeing to meet prospective partners. Gaines gives extensive examples of what a gypsy or black widow is capable of. Gaines has first hand knowledge of evil women who marry men to steal all their money and property.
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Are You a Job in Modern Times? - Vera Simpson Gaines
© 2006 Vera Simpson Gaines. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means
without the written permission of the author.
First published by AuthorHouse 10/25/2006
ISBN: 1-4259-6611-X (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4678-0837-8 (ebk)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006908767
Cover imagery by Thomas Guest
Contents
Dedication Page
Chapter 1-Loss
Chapter 2- Starting Over
Chapter 3- Scriptures to Stand On
Chapter 4-Abundant Faith
Chapter 5- The Awesome Power of God
Chapter 6- Putting Satan in His Place
Chapter 7- Looking For Your Purpose in This World
Chapter 8- What Can You Do For God?
Chapter 9- How to Know God’s Calling
Chapter 10- Conversations With God
Chapter 11-It’s A God Thing!
Chapter 12- You Can Make A Difference
Chapter 13- Why Bad Things Happen to Good People
Chapter 14- Does God Really Care?
Chapter 15- Lessons Learned in the Dark
Chapter 16- A King for A Father
Chapter 17- Meeting God Halfway
Chapter 18- Where Will You Spend Eternity?
Chapter 19- Living Proof of What God Can Do
Chapter 20- Blessings Galore
Chapter 21- One Set of Footprints
Chapter 22- Can God Use You?
Chapter 23- God Restores
Study Guide
Scriptures Used:
About The Author
Dedication Page
I dedicate this book to Jesus Christ for helping restore me after my storms in life. With each and every trial and tribulation that I have suffered, Jesus has made me into the person He created me to be. You too can be restored. Ask Jesus to help you.
Chapter 1-Loss
When we use the word loss, it can take on many forms. Loss of a job. Loss of a loved one. Loss of material things. 911 was a great loss of people that affected all of us. The tsunami was another great loss of life that unfolded right before our eyes. I still can’t get the picture out of my mind of the man who had walked out to look at the receding waters. He looked like he was frozen in time as he stood still as the waves came crashing toward him, never to be seen again. He was alive one minute and gone the next. Story after story was told of missing loved ones. The whole world grieved with them.
Just about everyone can relate to losing a job. Whether it’s a lay-off due to down sizing or being fired for being a whistle-blower. Some people have to give up their jobs due to health problems. Because of 911, thousands of jobs were lost from the devastation of the businesses. The stock market was affected and all these things trickled down to you and me in some form or another.
People lose their homes to fire, flood, earthquakes, and hurricanes more often than you think. I’ve never lost a home, but I do remember as a child, our home caught on fire one night. We had a double fireplace and my parents had boarded up the side that was in my oldest sister’s bedroom. Something blew over to the bedroom side and caught the boarding on fire. I remember the human chain that my family formed passing buckets of water from the kitchen to the bedroom. Another night as I sat on the floor in front of the fire doing my homework a spark flew out and landed on my skirt. I went into the bedroom to answer the phone and smelled smoke. My Mother excused herself from the caller to investigate. As my parents went from room to room, they continued to smell smoke. Upon returning to the living room, I suddenly felt a burn on the back of my leg. My skirt was fixing to blaze up. A hole the size of a grapefruit burned through my skirt. My Mother patched my skirt and I continued to wear it, patch and all.
I remember one other incident where our farm caught on fire. A hunter had thrown down a cigarette and caught a field of sage grass on fire. We lived 2 ½ miles out in the country so my brother and I had to act quickly. While my brother tried to put out the fire, I had to make our horses move out of the way. The wind caught the fire and blew it in such a way that things got out-of-hand very rapidly. My brother almost got caught by the fire.
I learned how to track hurricanes at an early age by my Grandma Trussell. We spent every summer visiting my grandparents. We didn’t live near the ocean so it was a treat to be able to go to Gautier, Mississippi. My grandparents owned Cedar Point Camp on the most southern tip of Gautier. My grandfather bought 12 acres of land for a dollar an acre. People would come from all over to spend a week or more fishing. If all the cabins were full, we got to sleep on the screened in front porch on cots. Till this day I can close my eyes and hear the ocean waves. I heard my grandparents tell stories of the hurricanes from the past. Stories of wild cows, bores, snakes, and sea turtles being brought in from the surrounding islands. I was there once when a small tropical depression came in and I was in awe of the waves then. My grandparents never ran from the hurricanes. I was in summer school at Miss. State when Camile slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 1969. My Grandmother refused to leave the beautiful red-split log house that was built in 1942. So my brother had to bodily pick her up and put her in the car. She was taken to Jackson, Mississippi to her sister’s house. After the storm blew over, my brother and his wife had to cut their way back into the camp. All the cabins but one were destroyed. All the boats in the slip were blown away. Sixty-five cedar trees in the front yard were destroyed. My Father picked me up from Miss. State and we headed to the coast to help clean up my grandmother’s camp. There were all kinds of things floating in the water. You didn’t want to look for long for fear of discovering a body in the water. A body was found a mile down the beach. We were hoping to get things cleaned up before my grandmother arrived but she couldn’t stay away any longer and talked her sister into bringing her home. We left on a Sunday and that Wednesday my Grandmother had a massive stroke. She was in a coma for 66 days before she died. Camile was the biggest hurricane on record and I had to use the civil defense film in my classroom to teach the students about natural disasters. I cried every time I showed it.
My first cousins stayed on the point and built new homes. My cousin Johnny Trussell built a two-story home on the end of my grandparent’s split log house where the bedrooms use to be. Joanie built a beautiful home with a swimming pool in the front yard where her parents use to live and Sue built a home where the cabins use to stand. Hurricanes came and went. Then came Katrina in the summer of 2005. All records went out the window or should I say Gone with the wind
.
My cousin Johnny made a bad decision to stay on the point in his house with his son, Rusty. My sister tried to convince him to leave but he had his mind made up. Joanie and her husband, Sue, Mary Beth, Sherrie, and Johnny’s daughter packed up and headed to Mobile, AL. I have no idea what it’s like to be able to carry only a few things. How does one make the decision what to take or what to leave behind?
Days passed before we received word. No phones, no cell towers, only bits and pieces from the news broadcast and articles in the newspaper. I knew once I read about Pascagoula, that my brother lost his house because he lived several blocks behind Sen. Trent Lott. The first six blocks were gone! Twenty two feet of water rolled in and destroyed everything in its path, even the shipyard was destroyed. This gave me a clue about my Grandparent’s fishing camp. I use to stand in their front yard and could see the shipyard to the east. My fear was for my cousin Johnny. I knew he had stayed in his house