Scripture - Week 4 - Steve Martin (Guest Speaker!)

About six months after Sally and I were married, hello Sally, everyone say hello Sally.

About six months after Sally and I were married, my job was made redundant.

Now, for Stephen in his mid-20s, this was not a new thing.

That was actually the second time I'd been made redundant.

A big company swallowed up the company I worked for, and it wasn't anything personal.

A whole heap of people just lost their jobs because they were surplus to the new organisation.

That's what I keep telling myself.

But that redundancy hit me really hard.

The first one was easy.

I was 22 years old.

I just got another job and got on with it.

But this time, and I think maybe because we were married, I felt that responsibility of family.

And I really spiraled in that moment.

And I now know that I went into a period of deep reactive depression.

And it really, really spoke deep into my life.

It was a really terrible time.

But objectively, my life was really good.

I was newly married to a beautiful woman.

I'd lost my job, yes, but on the very day I was made redundant, I received another job offer.

In the morning, I got a call, hey, we want to offer you a job in the afternoon, I was made redundant, I was like, ripper Rita, I get to pocket this entire redundancy and it became our house deposit.

You know, the provision of God in that moment was just wonderful, but all I could see was gloom.

The depression was heavy on me, and it was speaking to me every day.