Rejection

Thank you so very much for applying and interviewing for one of nine positions on the dietary staff of Camp Hamwi 2011. There were over 60 applications. You have not been selected this year. Candidates were chosen based on food service, childcare and camp experience, as well as the way in which you conducted yourself during our 30-minute phone interview and how you answered the questions. Sincerely, Jenny Shrodes Jennifer C. Shrodes, RD, LD Diabetes Nutrition Educator

First thoughts:

I was hoping to get the position in order to beef up my resume. I know God has other plans. I know it's a growing experience. I was kinda banking on it though. As a dietetic major working where a dietitian might find themselves is a requirement. A 200 hour requirement at that. There are 3 general areas that are stressed to us: food service, community, and clinical. This one girl in my department has like 500 hours split between all three areas and she still has another year. I know I should not compare myself, but I have a lot of hours to do since I only have a whooping 0 hours now, and I only have one year left! ahh!

Second thoughts:

God is so good. I would have felt like I could go anywhere for my dietetic internship with that on my resume. I would have given all the credit to the diabetes camp experience and not God. I know, God wants my story to be inspiring like Ben Carson's. He wants my chances to be low, really low, and then he will get me into a really hard DI program. Cool. This is going to be good. I am glad they rejected me. Everything is going to be way better than I hoped for or dreamed for. Thank you Jesus.

Third thoughts:

I didn't have a chance. I probably had to be Betty Crocker, have food service experience since I was 2, have taught a food service class, have straight A's, have diabetes and have overcame it and taught classes to camp age kids while owning my own food service business that caters to diabetics...just to be considered for the job. Yeah, I shouldn't worry about it.

Fourth thoughts:

What? I can't believe I thought that (second thoughts)! that is so selfish of me to think that God is going do everything for me and my plans. Wow, I need to be humbled. I know that he wants me to be happy. He does it because he loves me and not for the sake of bettering my cause... It's all about Jesus.

Chin up, and praise God for the good in your life. Rejection happens. God is there to catch us and show us that it's not the things, or the opportunities, or the diabetes camps in life that make us who we are. We find our identity in him. Praise God.

"But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations" -Psalms 33:11