‘25 Fangs
Where is God in your life?
Over the last week, I have come up with several ideas on what I would like for this week’s topic to be. What should I write about in this entry? Will anybody read it? Will anybody care? These are a few of the minor thoughts I have throughout the week. So after writing a lot and deleting a lot, here is what I have settled on:
Those who know me well know that 2025 was a real struggle. Just one bad thing after another kept happening to my family and I. I spent the entire summer of ‘25 looking for a new job. At first, it was exciting, but after a while, it just wore me down. At first, my job hunt was just church or ministry-related work. I had several interviews where I knew I had landed the job. But without even an explanation, those places would just decide to not even return my calls or emails. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months with no offers or even follow-ups. I started questioning where God was in all of this. He would remind me that He was in all of this and that I just needed to trust Him.
Every business said they were hiring, but nobody would hire me. I couldn’t even get a job at a gas station. The job that did end up hiring me only pays barely above minimum wage, but touts that they are the greatest company to work for (what company doesn’t). I managed to get a second job that paid more but will only worked it’s employees part-time hours. To cap off the end of the year, I was on my way home from a really long work day. I was doing some shopping before I got home when I received a call saying that my dad had pancreatic cancer. I was in the middle of the checkout lane when the call came. It took every fiber of my being not to freak out and just lose absolute control in the middle of the store. When I hung up the phone, I asked God to give me the strength to at least get out to my car so I could let loose on Him where nobody could see.
I got out to the car, turned it on, and before I let loose, He asked me how much I trusted Him. I said with everything I had, I trusted Him. I had made decisions in life trusting in God and His plans. He then told me that everything would be okay and that I needed to trust Him. Even in our darkest days, my household has always and will always trust in God because He has always supplied all of our NEEDS according to His riches and glory. Not wants, but NEEDS.
I spent the last several months praying hard for my dad and not really worrying about the other stuff. My Facebook friends have seen that I have shared a few posts regarding his journey. A few weeks ago, we were told that the tumor had shrunk to the point where the doctors can and will do surgery to remove it.
We always ask the Lord to guide our steps, and He does promise that He will never leave us or forsake us. But the hard truth to recognize is that sometimes that very path that we ask Him to guide us is an extremely hard path full of thorns and scary moments, but where does this path lead? It leads us to the promises God has for us. Am I working in an area that I want to work? No. Do I feel fulfilled in what I do? Also no but I realize that I am where God wants me right now.
In the middle of the tumultuous 2025, I had a dream that I was standing near the doors of a farming store when the sky got really dark, the wind started blowing really hard. Trash was flying across the parking lot cars were being lifted off the ground. The doors and windows of the store were ripped from the frames. Everyone inside ran to the center of the store while I looked up to the sky. I watched as a funnel started to descend from the sky. I grabbed the door frame that was anchored down and didn’t budge. The funnel was about to touch the ground when I said, “You promised…” That was all I said. The funnel cloud didn’t touch down but instead went back into the sky, which cleared up immediately afterward.
Where is God in your life? What does the path that you are currently walking on look like? Is He guiding you, or are you refusing to move because the path that lies before you scares you or you don’t think it’s the right path?
Trust God even when you don’t understand what He’s doing.
-Chad Pippin
03/22/2026
