(馮學燕姊妹)
归 回 安 息, 平 静 安 稳
Sue Bell (馮學燕）2015年6月23日
“Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:30 PM
Subject: **** Organization Announcement ****
Good afternoon everyone,
I am very pleased to announce a promotion in the IT Infrastructure team. Sue Bell has been promoted to Cloud Infrastructure Architect. In her tenure as Senior System Administrator, she has made a significant difference by stabilizing our cloud environment, revamping our CPIR data upload process, and solving our database access issues. While she will continue to lead our cloud infrastructure efforts, she will also take on the additional responsibilities of designing and building an environment that integrates and supports our technology needs. Please join me in congratulating her on this well-deserved promotion. “
The above is the email about my promotion sent to all employees by my director. Up to that day, I had been working in this company for exactly 7 months. Everyday in these 7 months was a miracle day. I not only believe but also experienced the Grace of God which is ALWAYS sufficient to every moment of our lives as long as you rely on it.
I was hired as a senior system administrator on Oct 20, 2014. When I started, I realized this place has very different computing environment from my past working experiences. Most current cloud technology is used which I just heard of it before. Almost every technology in use is new to me. To make things even worse, on January 5th, 2015, the only senior system administrator who was familiar with the cloud technology was let go suddenly. I became the only one who was responsible for entire IT infrastructure. I remembered vividly the first sentence out of my mouth when my director told me “Mike was let go” was “Oh, My God!” The first mind was “I need to find another job!” since I knew very clearly that my past experience and capabilities were too limited for this place, nothing I could change that in such short of time.
In January 6th morning, on the way to work, as usual, Sister Min and I were praying, a very clear voice came to my heart. “你们得救在乎归回安息；你们得力在乎平静安稳“ (Isaiah 30:15). At that moment, I knew what I needed to do: 归 回 安 息, 平 静 安 稳. I had no idea what God was going to do. But I believed HE would handle it. It was 5 minutes after I was in the office, my CIO came over and told me that there would be a scheduled production change to update 40K product images on the website that Friday. Last time when Mike did, it was unsuccessful, that was one of reasons why he was let go. CIO wanted to know how familiar I was with that process. I honestly told him, Mike hadn’t told me anything about this image process at all, since it was only one of hundreds applications we were taking care of. But I also told him that “I will take care of it and make it happen on Friday, no worries!”
After CIO left, I took a look at the programs of this process, they were written by a language I had no experience at all. Then the voice came upon my heart again, 归 回 安 息, 平 静 安 稳. Next a couple of days, I followed the ideas came to my mind and read, modified the programs, on that Friday, when it was time to make the change, I calmly ran the programs, 40K new product images were on the website. Viola! Next day my CIO came over and thanked me. He said “I was very worried when you told me you had no idea how the image process works, because those programs were written and maintained by Mike. If he failed to do it, how could I expect you would succeed? Very surprised, you did!!!” I said “God helped!” He laughed and thought I was joking. But I knew that was HIM. This was the only one of many experiences I had in those 7 months. Not only many people were surprised by how much and well I had improved their computing environments single handed, even myself was surprised.
All I did was 归 回 安 息, 平 静 安 稳. And followed the ideas and did exactly the ideas told me. Now I looked back those days and works I have done, there is no doubt in my heart that it is my God who made all those impossible become awesome realities. All praises, thanksgiving, powers to HIM!
