Unexpected blessings came to greet me today!! But I shall tell of one :)
So at work I'm the counselor (what they call us) of PlayStation: an open, indoor space of foosball, air hockey, pop-a-shot, pool, ping pong, board games, puzzles, Wii, K'nex, blocks, Twister, etc. Today I just found out I'm going to be a homeroom teacher!!! IN LIFE ROCKS!!! It might not sound so delightful to you but oh how I longed for that room!!! Life Rocks was the room that I went in when I was hired: fuse beads, knitting, framed collages, friendship bracelets, necklaces, sewing....Love at first sight!
Then later, because of my lack of knowledge of the rooms' names I mistakenly claimed that I was in "Exploration" the science and math room, but what I meant to say was "Life Rocks," the awesomest room ever. Nice. So Life Rocks floated away and I was never assigned to that room again.
I was assigned to Pre-teens for the summer which was a great learning experience. Then, when the school-year began I was assigned to PlayStation: the area evaded by ALL the counselors due to the extreme noise and the hard-to-monitor area of endless competition between the kiddos. What a challenge! I was up for it :)
So it's been quite the journey... sitting down with the child whose tears are flowing because he lost the game, engaging the sequenced clapping to get the kids' attention to remind them they need to use their "inside voice", endlessly playing ping pong as the previous child tired of playing and the child that just arrived is extremely eager to play the game...there I go again: ping...*pick the ball up*...pong...*wait for the little one to run and get the ball he/she missed*...ping...*pick the ball up*...pong...*again pick it up*...ping...pong, helping a child build a SuperSet motorcycle and having to heed to another child's exclamation that someone destroyed his Lego jet from the safe shelf. Can anyone say multitasking? Well, thank the Lord that my ears are intact and that He's grown my patience since I first ran PlayStation. Every experience is a learning one if you want it to be.
So the Life Rocks lead counselor got a job as a social worker and there's an empty position! My dream room has a position available?! No way! WAY! :D I came to find out after a weekend [of no work] that any of the counselors who wanted to be in Life Rocks could put their name on the Supervisor's list. So I did! It was me up against a counselor who has been working there for about... 10 years? More or less. She's SO experienced, responsible, wise, a sure bet... and I'm a newbe with less than 6 months of work here who's never really even had a homeroom. Many were saying that the other counselor would for sure get it and to not feel bad if she did. I just remained silent. I did think of both possibilities though: "if she gets it that's so awesome because I know she would love that room and she's such a great counselor; if I get it I would get the chance to improve and work harder in the room that I love!" But the Lord knows.
I got a text today from a coworker that the boss called everyone to a meeting and announced that I was going to be assigned to Life Rocks (I didn't go to work today because I have a full day of school). What joy! It seemed unexpected but such a pleasant unexpected! And at the same time it seemed expected... I just thanked the Lord. I didn't know He had that in mind... but it was planned :) and with this I'll leave you with a journal entry I wrote on October 26, 2010 of an "unexpected" encounter... or so I thought:
I just saw an old friend. Others would say he’s an old foe. But I was thinking, “I love how random the Lord is…” Then a thought came saying, “Is it randomness or is it planned?” Ha ha: it’s planned. The Lord knows everything that’s going to happen and all of the happenings; past, present, and future all happen under His authority. Interesting. We don’t see events like that huh? Things “just happen” right? Nope. Nothing comes to pass without His permission. We say that “Life” takes its turns as if life is its own entity. Life is in the Lord’s hands and under His control. Good or bad, a perceived positive or negative event goes through the Lord’s say before we encounter it… I say “perceived” because all events for His children are good. Whether they are labeled advantageous or disadvantageous… Rom 8:28 J they ALL work for good. That’s His will for our lives so we can rejoice because every single thing, every single second of our lives, every single happening happens under His eye.
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