"I am not talking about this."

When I was in high school/beginning of college, I dated a guy who had seriously thought about being a firefighter. I was dead set against being married to a firefighter. I thought it was such a dangerous job and I would not be able to handle it. When Josh and I first met, apparently I had mentioned that to him once, sort of in the manner of, "I will NEVER be married to a firefighter." I did not know that he had previously considered the career. When I told him that, he just sort of pushed the thought of possibly wanting to be a firefighter to the back of his mind (see, Josh is a dreamer and had thoughts about doing pretty much everything you can think of...and did end up pursuing pretty much everything you can think of at one point or another. That is why he is such a jack of all trades, he can seriously do ANYTHING! He is very talented!). Well, 2 years ago this month, Josh started looking into being a firefighter again. For weeks, he did research, called every firefighter he knew and asked about the job. One day, while I was driving to work, he called me and said, "Don't freak out, but I think I am supposed to be a firefighter." All I said was, "I am not talking about this." (Dang, what a stubborn, selfish, you know what!) For 2 weeks, I tried to not think about it, and just hoped that his crazy idea that he KNEW I would not approve of would just go away...that didn't work. I kept feeling God telling me that it was right, and that it would be ok, but I still for 2 weeks just fought it. Finally, God spoke loud and clear to me and said, this is what he is supposed to do, everything will be fine. So, 2 weeks later, I went to Josh and said, "Ok, we can talk about it, but I DON'T want to know how much money you would make because I don't want that to influence what I think." (We had been through a couple of ROUGH years financially and I was just afraid that anything that would provide a good amount of money I would be ok with and that should not always be that case!) He told me about the research he had been doing and the people he had called and talked to and I could just see the excitement on his face, it was totally right! We both decided that this is what he should go for full force until the Lord closes the door. He tried out for school that was going to start in January and made it and got hired in Rowlett and started the next August. We had always heard that you should expect it to take at least a year after you finish school to get hired, but Josh got hired the month he finished school! God worked everything out perfectly and I am so glad that I listened to him! His will is perfect and I would not want to be anywhere but there! This month, I have just been reflecting on how much has happened and changed in the last 2 years and just can't believe how blessed we are!