February 2025 – DOGE. Not many people would associate that with a miracle but for me it started something deep in my heart and led me to His wonders. Well we all got that email saying we needed to Return to the Office and this time it was for good. Telework and remote work was over. And for me that culminated in me being called back to the office in Maryland, despite reaching out to MSFC and being secured a seat. Well moving back to Maryland was not going to happen. We had established our lives in Huntsville with no intent to return to the DMV. I knew this day would come…eventually….. but here I was and in the next 36 hours I had to make a decision to either resign or desperately find a way to get a job at MSFC, despite a government hiring freeze. Well after telling my MSFC colleagues that GSFC was not going to accept me sitting at another NASA center, I sent them my resume as a last ditch effort to try and see if they might have an internal NASA position coming available at MSFC that I could transfer into from GSFC. The next 36 hours were nothing short of a miracle. A whole team including those at the highest levels at MSFC were on the move to make it happen. All I had to do was sit back and watch God move on my behalf. Things like, the fact that God gave me courage to introduce myself to the tour coordinator for tours I took at MSFC last summer and who I reached out to when I needed help to get on MSFC; OR the fact that she said that every person she needed to talk to came into the room one right after another, after receiving my email just 15 minutes before her meeting; OR that through this we found out that we are neighbors and that for the past several years I could see her house through the trees as I sit at my desk working from home ; OR the fact that I realized that for the past several years she had been the one I saw swiftly walking past my house when she took her daily walk. Only God can make a set up like that….with only His touch of humor in those sweet surprises. And now I have a good outgoing friend, neighbor, and colleague to help me get acquainted with work at MSFC! That’s an answer to prayer too!

Now I didn’t know how things would turn out as we went through those 36 hours and that is where things get even sweeter because during this time of uncertainty in my mind, God had a plan to teach me more than just that He could move mountains to yet again secure my job. Here are the things He showed me:

• During this time, I pressed into the Lord and that’s where I learned that God is greater than my greatest fear, my weakness (See To Be Known).
• I remember driving down the road on my way to prayer and God just revealing himself to me. In my mind’s eye, I kept seeing this woman standing in front of the congregation at church and with a smile she was testifying that “God is good” even though she had just suddenly lost her husband. See I never quite understood where a person who had suffered such great tragedy was coming from but in this major life event is where I received a glimpse of what it is like to go through a trial and still say “God is good” regardless of the outcome. See I didn’t know how this would end (and still don’t to some extent) but I saw God use it to reveal Himself to me and teach me. This is how people who go through tragedy can say “God is good.” It’s not that God “fixed” what happened or that they aren’t grieving. It’s that despite it, He was there with us through it, teaching us about Himself, revealing who HE is and His ways and thus satisfying the deepest desire of our hearts – to know Him. As wild as that roller coaster was for a week and half and the most “out of control” one could feel, it was worth it just so that I could know my Savior more and see Him work directly on my behalf.
• Not only was this a miracle in my job but this was a breakthrough in my spiritual walk with the Lord. I have never seen God move so detailed, so swiftly in my life before. And now I get to testify to it! All those times I heard of other’s miracles and even saw them in my husband’s life. Now I know He can do them for me. God showed me I had to address all the doubt I had been carrying the last several years….the doubt that God was going to do it for others but just maybe not for me. I had to address those doubting thoughts that I had entertained and let linger in my mind longer than they should have been. I had to repent of that. I had to stop them immediately when they came and make them bow to the Lordship of Christ over my life. To not doubt doesn’t mean that you trust God is going to do what you want but rather not doubting means you trust that He is good whether or not He does what you want, how you want it or how you think he will do it. It’s trusting His character, wanting His way over our own, and wanting to know Him more than wanting the thing you request. See God knows what we need, can provide it, but what He really wants is your heart. That sometimes means laying down your want to “know the future” and just trusting the one who does. It’s more about your heart than the thing that is going on. Now I know He can do the miracles and yes even for me.
• He confirmed His word that “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” – Proverbs 21:1 God ultimately used people to bring GSFC management on board with the transfer rather than just a call back to GSFC to which I would have led to my resignation.
• I had to wait a few weeks before the transfer would take affect. So when worry creeped up about whether things would actually come through, he reminded me through song to trust.

Through all of this, I’ve tasted and seen of His goodness and faithfulness and I just want to know Him more.

O taste and see that the Lord is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! – Psalm 34:8