Love is the Answer

          I know I keep going back and forth on my future life but I'm in my 20s. Isn't that what I'm suppose to do. Being an OT someday would be great but for now I like where I am and I have other dreams I want to pray about and get accomplished. I have my undergrad degree and for now that should be enough especially for what I want to do in the future. Oddly, I needed a degree for that. Not really but it is something I like to do so I got a degree in it.
          I know I can make more money with a Master's especially in OT or any high thing having to do with children but that is not why I picked children as my focus. I picked them because I love working with them and helping them in anyway that I can. Today at work really helped me see that if I have my eyes open to the children around me I can help them or at least try to help them in some way whether writing things down or sharing things with other staff. I love talking it through with other staff especially staff that know something about what is going on because then maybe they can teach me and you know I love to learn.
           What I love about my job is learning about the children and then learning how to help them if I can. It stinks though when you just get them and then they have to leave but then again you know for the next child that comes alone with the same signs. There are so many children that come into my work that it is amazing to see all the different kinds. Some of them are really sad but then it is a blessing to see how 3 months can make all the difference for them in a stable home-like environment.  Some children it is hard to see sometimes if they are just being bad or really has something wrong with them. I know I have thought "oh, this child is just spoiled" when really there was more to it then just being spoiled.
            It is hard to tell most of the time what a children needs but as humans we all know that everyone needs love and that will fix everything no matter the problem. At my work, you really see Love at work and for me it's not my love because doing it day after day I would and have ran out of my love for the children but it is always God's Love that is poured on them day after day. I have so many stories of children I have seen being healed just because of that Love and praying that they will stay like that and/or get even better.
             Love is a big part of my job and I only might get to see little blessing out of loving not them for 3 months but any part is so worth it if I can see change even if I can't I know it is working. I'm a big person when it comes loving through my actions and I hope I do that with this children. I hope that with my smile, kisses, hugs, patience, and so much more that they can see that I love them dearly because I do. In a way, I guess I do show some love through other ways then actions. I guessing hugging and smiling is more physical, right? Patience is an action.
              For me, my job description is 1 Cor. 13, the Love Chapter. I have it at work in my plastic draw. What better way to live life then to keep giving the Love of the Lord out to people whether family or "random" (I use that word loosely) children. Deep Love is what is important in life and if you can't give that to anyone then you are lost in life. I might not have a legacy to pass on yet but I know that I'm passing something on to these children and that is the Love of God. Love is truly the answer to everything and when that doesn't work then something is really wrong.