Do you ever feel like life is conspiring against you? That things are unnecessarily hard or just plain unfair?

 

That's how I was feeling for a long time. Let me tell you the story and how it changed. 

 

Way back in the 1990's I had visited B.P.S as an agency worker along with a lot of other places. I eventually found my way back there and was trained to take over loading hoppers from a gentleman by the name of Bill Conway who was retiring. That was back in 1997. It was another 4 YEARS before the company took me on in a full time or permanent capacity. During that time I had asked about a permanent role and was put off. I applied for a vacant position in the mill but my application seemed to have been ignored. I was growing frustrated and didn't understand how I could be doing the job of a permanent worker but not be given a permanent role. To be honest I had given up on the idea. It was as if there was a huge brick wall in front of me.

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I took a chance anyway. I asked for an application form and filled it in. I prayed and my pastor prayed for the situation to change. That's when it happened. My manager got back to me and explained the situation. He said that he had spoken to the agency and they had come to an arrangement {The agency wanted compensating for losing a worker}. As a result, the company would be taking me on in a permanent capacity {after 4 years!}. I had tried and tried and all to no avail but as soon as I tried as an act of faith I saw the difference. That was back in 2001. Since then I have learned bit by bit to include God in my decisions and plans and have found that he has become less and less of a theory and more and more of a living reality. It took me a while to learn that one but I got there eventually. So that's how I came to work at British Pepper & Spice.