i had a modular class this weekend. we met once a month i think three times and that was our class. i love it because it feels like a retreat with some pretty awesome people and one of my favorite profs. anyway... the class was on child and adolescent counseling. it has been a pretty awesome class... today we talked about some disorders and one of them is called reactive attachment disorder. the prof was talking about symptoms and stuff... and all of a sudden... i could hear P (not literally, but just in my head) say, "she's one of us." i smiled real big...
i used to be a teacher and P subbed where i worked... that's where we met. P would always tell me how good i was with kids and asked me how i get kids to like me. when the kids would like follow me around or just run to me and hug me, P would say, "they're thinking... she's one of us!" at first i thought, he thinks i'm immature, but he explained that it was because he thought they could feel that i genuinely love them and care for them so they just come to me... one of the best compliments ever. i had forgotten about that until today...
i love being with children. i had forgotten that... or suppressed it because i was just so tired of being a single mom... but as i pray about where i would like to do my counseling and what area i would like focus on... i think about how much fun i had loving on the kids in class... in my sunday school... in the different ministries i was involved in... in indonesia... i enjoy it and find joy in it!! it makes me smile just thinking about it. what joy!! so as i think and pray about my future... i think of "she's one of us" and ask God how he's going to use that... i'm so thankful for the Lord using words of encouragement from before and continually building me up now!!
A's second birthday party with all our neighbor kids her age.
