New chapter in my life - I got that job!

I have borrowed the title for this post from an entry in the blog of my fellow grandfather to Isabelle, Wes Loewen. For the last several years, I've been training to enter a new career - as a medical transcriptionist (that is, one who takes physician-dictated recordings and turns them into written reports that then become part of the permanent record of the patient). Since finishing the training late in 2010, I had applied for numerous positions, but was universally turned down due to lack of experience. Then, a few weeks ago, I learned that a friend from church heads the Pathology department at the University of Michigan, so I asked if he could speak up for me. He had a meeting with their Human Resources person, and last Friday I got an email out of the blue saying that they'd like to hire me for a temporary position for a month or so, and wondering if I could come in on July 5 to check it out. So I spent the entire workday yesterday at University Hospital, doing sample reports, and by the end of the afternoon the supervisor came down to my cubicle to say that she'd received great reports on my speed and quality from neighboring workers, and she wanted to offer me the position, and extend it "at least through the summer - and, we hope, beyond, if the new fiscal year permits it." So, at long last, an 18-year drought in my full-time work history comes to an end - and I praise God for bringing this about, both directly and through the help of his children.