God's Timing

Tuesday was my first day interning at WEUS. When I walked in I noticed a new stack of business cards sitting on the table. When I glanced closer ( because I am nosey) it was from the President of ACT! ( the exclamation point is part of the name). I thought this was interesting, seeing as he was just at my house for my WESH farewell party. I had met him that day covering the religous runaway case.

As I walked in one of the show hosts was standing there. I had written her an e-mail asking if I could sit in on her show and she had said "No". But I wasn't going to let her stop me from volunteering at WEUS. So I e-mailed the station manager. My grandma always says if you want to get something done, go straight to the top.

She looked at me and said " Are you the girl that sent me an e-mail?". I nodded. " I truly admire your ambition" she said. I was thrilled! Even though she had said "No", she still thought what I was an awesome person. Don't take things personal when people say "No", it's not always you, most of the time it's them. Come to find out later she gets nervous when people are in the booth with her, which is totally understandable.

The next hour I sat in on The Gueztloe Report. Which is a conservative news show. We talked about how Obama was going to be speaking in the classrooms. This was interesting but the next hour would change my life.

In walks this short woman named Linnda Durre' (that's not a typo her name is spelt with two "n's"). I had no idea who this woman was but I immediately liked her when she started dancing during her show open. Come to find out Linnda has a 64 page resume involving her media work ( I am not exaggerating). She sold her first TV series to Aaaron Spelling when she was 22 and the rest is history. She is also a psychotheraphist.

I listened as she interviewed Lydia Cornell (From " Too Close for Comfort" or more recently on " Curb Your Enthusiam"). Lydia told an amazing story about how she became an alocholic when Ted Knight died and how God helped her out of it. One thing that hit home is when she talked about when she gave men and finances up to God. 

I often find myself worrying about when it will be my turn to meet " Mr. Right" or my turn to being rolling in the money. But worrying is not of God. In fact if anything it's a sin ...worry is. When you worry, you don't trust. It has been said if you don't have trust in a relationship, there is no point. If you don't trust God, what is the point in believing or praying? 

I thought it was interesting enough that I had seen Alan's card at the door, but now the Celebirty guest was talking about the two things that I worry about? Then I hear a familar voice come on the radio, it's Dick Batchelor. For those of you who don't know Dick, he is the go to Democratic political analyst in the area. I would help tape his segments when I worked at WESH. He also owns a consulting company  (which my ex-boyfriend used to be the Vice President for...small world). So when I heard his voice I chuckled. Linnda looked at me. I apolgized and told her Dick was a friend of mine and it was funny to hear his voice. She told me Dick was one of her sponsors. You can tell she felt a lot more at ease.

When the show was over. Linnda and I debreifed about what went right and what went wrong. She said she needs a clock with a second hand for the wall. I told her I had one and would bring it on Wednesday. Turns out, my clock didn't have a second hand and I had to go buy one at Walmart. Well I was pulling in a man who doesn't speak any English backs up into my car. I told him to " Just go, it's a piece of junk anyways". This took 15 minutes to get across. Side note: 2 months ago I totalled a completely paid off 2007 car, I had a friend lower the car insurance payment and they took off collision coverage, hence the junk car. Lesson: Always have full coverage!

This morning, I brought in the clock. It needs a battery! I searched frantically for 20 minutes and finally got one. Just in time for today's show with Ed Donovan. What a great man! 

After today's show debriefing, Linnda asked me to do tomorrow's press release for 15-time Grammy Award Winner David Foster, if you don't know who he is look it up, his songs will blow you away.

I had to wait till 8pm tonight to start because I was babysitting one of my former anchor's children. Linnda and I sat on the phone for several hours perfecting the press release. She decided I am going to do all the press releases and book guests. Somehow in the course of 24 hours I am now Linnda's personal asssistant.

I know this is going to be a lot of work and right now it's unpaid. But I trust God and know his timing is perfect. I never believed in coincidences and have always said it's God's timing. It is in these moments that you know you are in the right place, at the right time and nothing...I mean nothing can stand in your way, because you have the backing of the Lord himself. How cool is that?