I
can’t say that every day is wonderful, but most days are! It doesn’t take long
to over look the complaints or the crazy moments when you love your job.
Recently,
I was talking with an old friend about our Y careers and we described it as a
“Love Story.”
It’s
a love story written with weekend text messages from staff, sharing something
funny from work or life. It’s in an email from someone sharing the Y’s impact
on their life. These moments always remind me that the joy in my job is where
hope, happiness and humanity intersect.
It’s
a love story written in moments that echo a bigger story, like when just the
right person appears at our side at just the right time. Recently I read that
coincidences are just God’s way of making things happen anonymously.
It’s
a love story written in memories, like that afternoon when you get a gift so
unbelievable, so fantastic that you are speechless. Afterwards, you can almost
hear God whisper that he’s in charge – in the bad times and in the good times.
All
the staff retreats, conferences, meetings and memories of the Y, weave
themselves together to tell a love story like no other, the story of how you
think the agreement with God is to help you so you can help others. When all
along it’s you who is being helped. We think we’re bringing people closer to
God when actually, he is inching closer to us.
I
wish everybody had a love story like mine. I pray that wherever you are on your
Y journey, whatever the longing of your heart may be, whatever mess you find
yourself in – God has brought you to the Y to create a love story. If you let
him, he will reveal himself THROUGH you and he will let you know that YOU are
loved!
