I drive about an hour to work each day, its a long drive – about an hour.. I had a sweet surprise on the drive on the 218 close to the 201. You never know what you’re going to see on the drive – sometimes it’s something wonderful – today it certainly was… <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, I’ve seen whole groups of deer crossing the road, sometimes up to 4 at a time, they usually cross 1 at a time and that can be a little dangerous for drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve got a story for you – a true story; I used to work for a MSP (managed service provider) – I was one of their server expert(s) (I’d never call myself that.) and we moved a massive Canadian restaurant chain into the cloud – being one of early adopters of being cloud only – where previously this client had been exclusively on-premise. I worked on this project extensively and got them up and running in conjunction with networking engineers that were part of this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the jobs they dispatched me to was a job for Canada Post in Ridgeville, and I took the same route I that I normally take to work now.. until then I was driving mostly in town\/city driving and I hated it. Driving this scenic and sunny route to Ridgeville via the 218 and 201 was a breath of fresh air to me.. and I made a silent prayer that I hoped one day I would be able to work somewhere in my field where I could drive this route – a little prayer made with a lot of faith – it might sound silly to you but it was very important to me. I need nature, it calms me – takes me away from the constant struggle of life, grounds me, reminds me that I’m just a simple man who loves an amazing God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward to 2019 where I got my current job – an amazing job, I love it, its unreal – so good. And in addition to that I get to drive the same route that I prayed about all those years before in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That route has everything that I want to see and its a blessing to me. My mind is either racing with technological challenges or thinking about my past, but these days I focus on the future. I’m faithful to God and he has been faithful to me – he always had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Driving home after work gives me time to ease my anxiety, unwind after meeting the troubles of the day. And its what I asked for – I didn’t realize it, things don’t always hit me right away #yearsLater <\/em>\ud83d\ude11\ud83d\udd52\ud83d\ude2e, one day – I looked at the sun coming up while driving and remembered my prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t know why God has done these things for me, I sure as heck don’t deserve it. I just want to publicly acknowledge & praise him for what he has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I drive about an hour to work each day, its a long drive – about an hour.. I had a sweet surprise on the drive on the 218 close to the 201. You never know what you’re going to see on the drive – sometimes it’s something wonderful – today it certainly was… Actually, I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[564,577,576,140,573,555,569,556,562,572,70,580,566,567,582,560,579,574,565,568,558,559,561,570,557,575,581,571,578,563],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-answered-prayer","tag-anxiety-relief","tag-canada-post-job","tag-christian-testimony","tag-cloud-migration","tag-commute","tag-commute-blessing","tag-daily-drive","tag-deer-crossing","tag-emerson-area","tag-faith-journey","tag-future-focus","tag-gods-faithfulness","tag-gratitude-to-god","tag-love-for-nature","tag-manitoba-highways","tag-morning-sunrise","tag-msp-experience","tag-nature-drive","tag-personal-story","tag-pr-201","tag-pr-218","tag-ridgeville-manitoba","tag-rural-manitoba","tag-scenic-route","tag-server-expert","tag-simple-life","tag-southern-manitoba","tag-unwinding-drive","tag-wildlife-on-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}