I am feeling extremely blessed lately. I have landed the most incredible job. I am working at a foster care agency here in Las Vegas doing social work. Looking around at the people that I am working with, I feel like I do not deserve this job. Some new employees have told me that they have been waiting for years to land a full time job like this that offers great benefits and is impacting children in the foster care system. Hearing the kinds of trauma these kids are going through often leaves my heart hurting and my eyes teary. For some reason that was in His plan. But, do you know what I do when I hear about a new kid? I immediately start praying for them. I pray that God would give them a sense of permanency, a home in which they feel so loved, and a family that is so gracious and kind they wonder why.
Although the work I will be doing will often be daunting, I think the reward is going to be more prevalent in my life. It has been my dream to work with abused children for sometime now. We are not all offered a wonderful upbringing in a safe and peaceful home. Most of the kids I am working with have been abused and will have some kind of clinical diagnosis. This just makes me want to love them all the more. I can't wait to see what God has in store for these little hearts. I just know He has mighty plans to heal them.
