I find myself more and more the last week or so reflecting on this year and what my experience has been. I keep going back to all that I experienced that NEVER would have happened if I had not been given the ‘gift’ of unemployment. For some who might read this, the question has to be how can unemployment be a gift? I too would have asked that question had I not been blessed by this ‘gift’ over the last year.

To explain just briefly how this time has been a gift, let me fill you in. I spent the first couple months after my layoff the first of February