“Sales are going down.”
“Business is running slower.”
“Employees layoffs are everywhere.”
“Don’t expect any salary increment this year.”

These are the words I’ve been hearing all year long from my bosses and people who are working in the same industry, which is retail. As much and often as I’ve been hearing God’s promises on His beloved people, I still don’t expect much since I see these issues are getting more real in my daily life.

I’ve bid many colleagues goodbyes months ago due to this ‘laying off’. Yes, the company I’m working in is laying off employees more than ever. I thank God every time, cause no matter what, I’m still employed, having a stable job with good salary and having bosses who are very considerate (please refer back to my Hong Kong trip testimony).
So, I was okay with no increment in salary.

But to my surprise, as God is always a surprisingly amazing Daddy to me, by the end of July 2018, my boss called me in. She mentioned how difficult the situation was for the company financially – and yes, I have found difficulties too in purchasing/releasing new products due to the new government regulation in increasing tax and custom – and she also explained how most employees had no salary increment this year.

However, she mentioned some of us were still getting a slight increment but should not ask for much, and that included me. I was happy and excited at the same, as I wasn’t expecting anything. And yes, I have planned to start exploring some places this year, cause it’s been boiling in my heart, with or without increment. But this news was really a very great news.

As I asked her what really happened, apparently she had a talk with the management on how to keep her “favourite” employees “happy”. Since it was a company’s regulation for not increasing any pay, she came up with an idea of promoting my position in order to increase my pay.
So that was how it went.

It’s never been in my imagination to have my boss fighting for my well-being even if she has to do whatever it takes to make me “happy”. And I know, it’s definitely not because of my strength, coz I’m still lousy at work and making so many mistakes, having neither intelligence nor so many experiences and its definitely not because of my looks.

Eventually, that was one of my Dad’s many ways of showing, how He cares so much for His children. By using whoever and whatever around them and making everything works for their good and benefit.

This reminds me of Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you, “declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Again, like always, I truly am experiencing that God is so real and alive and is walking with me all the way. Though I realize I have so little faith and frequently question Him about petty little things, yet He reminds me that it is His faith and promises that have brought me to this position I am in, now.
It’s never me and my faith.
And so I truly have nothing to boast about. He walks with me, works through me and for me, for His glory only.

Can’t wait to see what He has in store for me! 🙂
Truly excited!

Paramita