The Job I Did Not Get

I did not get a promotion I had worked toward for three years. I was passed over for someone younger with less experience. I was devastated and, honestly, furious. I prayed about it — not graciously, more like complaining loudly — and felt nothing back except a quiet sense that I should wait. Eight months later the man who got that promotion was let go when the division was restructured. The role that opened up was twice the salary and exactly the work I had wanted to do for a decade. I got it. I think about what would have happened if I had gotten what I asked for.