Friday, May 02, 2008

• Thankful Thursday (Vol. 42)

  Currently Watching Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Full Screen Edition) By Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse see related

  Oooooooooh.....Just a few more weeks and it's going to be one year! Yes!

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  Not that I speak in regard to need,
  For I have learned in whatever state I am,
  To be content.
  ~ Phil. 4:11 ~

  My job has a really high turn over rate. Mostly because a lot of people can't really handle the stresses, they can't handle going up face to face with the monsters that our kids deal with on a regular basis. Most of the time it's a problem with temperament. It takes a great deal of patience, understanding and ability to set aside you personal emotions to get the job done right. Not that you lake emotion or empathy, but to rightly deal with some of the problems arise. Unfortunately I cannot explain this to you well enough or accurately enough. It's a job that you can't really understand unless you do it. And it's a job that a lot of people don't respect or accept as a career. Which is ridiculous. Most people see what we do as glorified babysitting, and that's not even remotely close.

  But, here's the thing I'm grateful for this week. While I work, I am surrounded by, and made intensely aware of our kids' home situations, and their lives in general. It's sad. And, Good grief, does it keep my heart in perspective. I'm grateful for my life. For not having to know the horrors of the world that these kids have faced. I don't know why God allowed me a different life, that did not include emotional, physical or verbal abuse. A life that did not include just making it through the day, but a life where now at age 28, I can be a whole person, secure enough in myself to make my own path. No crippling handicaps and certainly no failure of knowledge that I am loved. Why did God allow that? I don't know. But I am grateful for it.

  One of the girl's told me the other day in anger "You don't know what it's like to live my life, to be comin' from where I come from!" (Among many other things)...but she was dead on about that. It's ok though, it doesn't hinder me from doing my job. I don't have to live the nightmares to know that they are real. But I tell you, there are moments and times that I wonder why I'm so blessed. And my job reminds me of it daily.

  I pray that God gives you reason to evaluate our life, and give you reason to recongnize some perspective and allows you to be grateful for your life. It's a wonder when we set aside the little things that irritate us and take hold in a small portion of what God gave us. My life is not perfect, but it is infinitely better than some people's. I could not be more blessed.

   

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