Today was my last day at my job, a job that I loved and hated all at the same time. I spent the past year working for a program called Adventure Club, its a before and after school program for elementary school. It was a bitter sweet moment to leave that place, its kind of surreal still to me.
I’ve had such a love/hate relationship with my job over this past year, there have been a lot of times I’ve come home and told my mom that I want to quite but yet back in a April when I got offered a different job I couldn’t leave. It’s crazy that I’m not going to be going to work on Monday morning and seeing Lawrence (a little boy who is my best friend) or seeing all my coworkers. My job hasn’t always been so easy though, when I first started all my coworkers hated me (they will openly tell you that too) and sometimes working with elementary school kids can be crazy and frustrating.
This past year at Adventure Club has taught me a lot! As cheesy as this is I’ve really had to learn how to live out the fruit of the spirit, Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. When I first started Adventure Club there was a lot if tension there, my boss and I were both new to the program and my coworkers weren’t exactly welcoming. I came to work knowing that they weren’t super fond of me, but I was patient. I was kind and loving to them even when I wasn’t sure if they even cared. Now we kind of all fit together we are so different but we just fit.
Working with kids will teach you so much! I have so much love for all the kids I worked with even the ones who tested my patience everyday. Somedays it was hard to be joyful with them or to have self control to not just make them sit in the safe seat and to love them through their mistakes. But I went to work excited to see them and to just love them. I will miss them dearly and it was hard when some of them were crying and hugging me and telling me goodbye, it was like they had never made me mad. It made me think thats how the Lord feels toward us. when we get in his presence He loves us so much that He can’t even remember all our sins. Working there has changed my prospective of the Fathers love for me, and how important it is to share that love. I’m a strong believer in how you end one season of life is how you will start the next. Even when it was hard I stuck it out and was faithful with what I had there and it paid off because I felt a lot of closure when I left work today. It was a good season and I made friends and I left on good terms. Now I walk into this next season fully ready for whatever God has for me.
I think living a life full of joy, love, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control you are truly living a full life. I know that I’ve made and impact on peoples lives because I choose to love the people I work with and the kids I’ve worked with.
-TaylorB
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