Last Updated on Saturday, January 14 2012 11:00
Waiting on the Lord . . .
BY: Stan
It is interesting and awesome at times to step back and watch how God will answer our pleas in His own timing and ways. Over a year ago, I began thinking through finding an Ecuadorian here in Shell who could become an ophthalmic technician for the eye department here. I felt that we needed someone who had some grasp of English as we have had and will have American ophthalmologists doing some temporary staffing at times.
When Ramiro was suggested by other hospital workers and we saw him in action, I was convinced this is who God had picked out for the job. Nevertheless, there were barriers that wouldn't allow Ramiro to be hired and from May of last year, we were unable to bring him on to start the training. Ramiro had been volunteering for 6 months at the hospital before but wasn't even allowed to continue volunteering due to the issues at hand. We went ahead and interviewed others and felt that we just didn't have the right person from the few applicants that showed up.
In January 2012, after nearly 7 months of waiting and not understanding, we got the go ahead to hire Ramiro for the department! Praise God.
Yesterday, I got the opportunity to hear the other side of the story from Ramiro as he came in to talk about all of the things he was to do. Ramiro stopped me in the beginning and said, "I'd like to thank God first and then you all for this opportunity to serve" He related then how devasted he had been that he was not able to be hired and how discouraged he had become. Early on, he began to practice his English and study some. He become discouraged and put it aside but his wife kept reminding him to wait on the Lord and to be persistent.
