{"id":6935,"date":"2026-01-07T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:45:51","slug":"finding-god-in-tenure-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2026\/finding-god-in-tenure-difficulty\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding God in Tenure Difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6935\" class=\"elementor elementor-6935\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a1fee6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6a1fee6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-87c9773\" data-id=\"87c9773\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c50930f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c50930f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For collegiate faculty, tenure is an important career stepping stone. But its pursuit can be a challenging, lonely, and personal journey.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e9bc41e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e9bc41e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d6fa9e\" data-id=\"7d6fa9e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03806d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03806d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">The results are also largely out of your control. Once a file is submitted for review, you are at the mercy of others to ultimately find you worthy or not.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">Not long ago I found myself in this position. Amid the positive reviews I received from many reviewing my tenure application, a very negative letter was also placed in my file. This negative recommendation triggered further review and the real possibility of a failed process.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Anxious Nights, Suspicions, and Fears<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">When I read the letter, I thought my academic career was done. My anxiety and heartbreak was palpable. I retain a vivid memory of getting the news from my dean a few days before our university-wide Christmas party. It was an unwelcome and unexpected holiday surprise\u2014so much so, close friends thought it was a practical joke I was pulling on them.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">What followed were anxious nights, suspicion, tears, anger, feelings of betrayal, desires for revenge, potential lawsuits, and ultimately a depression-induced malaise questioning what I was doing and why. The suspense went on from December until the first week of May\u2014a blink for most of us in the academic world but a very difficult span for my work&#8211;tempered by the inability to plan and no confidence that the outcome would not lead to major change.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>God Allowed It<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">To spare further suspense I was eventually granted tenure. And while that is good news, the better news is major changes were exactly what God wanted from me and he started them through this hurt. He used the letter to bring it about. Though another may have meant it for harm\u2014God allowed it for my good.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">The confusion, disappointment, and chaos around this letter and its potential outcome forced me to seek God like I had not done in many years. And as I sought God, I realized my walk had grown stale and my dependence on self instead of Him had cost me and my family peace. We suffered a great deal of anxiety. My sense of self-reliance had shrunk God\u2019s influence in many of my life decisions to the point of nothing more than a whisper.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Restored Hope<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">But in a way only God can do, over that tenure resolution time, I discovered my feelings of frustration associated with receiving that bad review and my fear of associated consequences betrayed poor motivations in me.<\/p><blockquote>Only after I shared my thoughts and feelings with God was I met with His healing, mercy, and gentle correction.<\/blockquote><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">God used the hurt and sense of loss to recreate and restore in me new hope and the desire to be more like Christ and less like the prideful, selfish individual I had allowed myself to become.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Within God\u2019s Loving Plan<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">In the grand scheme of things, five months of tenure uncertainty compares poorly to the pain and suffering many others experience when God sets out to fashion a work within. But it is a valuable experience in my lexicon. Not only because God ultimately provided for me, but more importantly, because He also changed me.<\/p><p class=\"m_3390846277484866594mcePastedContent\">God loves me (loves us) too much to let us become something less than we can become in the promises and provisions He has for us. I am not saying everything associated with that experience is alright in me&#8211;even now. 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