03/19/2024
Working in social service doesn’t make up for your own mistakes from your life that you wish you could have changed or done differently. Only to become a bitter person in this industry that sometimes consumes you to the current you once went against.
And trust me… it’s a strong current.
Working with children with trauma, as someone who has gone through a lot of my own, has kept me from compassion fatigue only by keeping my strength in God. Is the only thing that held me together and kept me from giving up. Unfortunately many others do, because it’s a tiring industry, to feel like you are constantly fighting the opposition by standing up for children who were made to feel like they were a failure. Being told enough times, makes them start to beleive it, thus fulfilling the prophecy spoken over them.
Telling a child they are bad, they can’t be heard, they are abusive, they should know better is a sad excuse in our culture and continues. That my purpose in this Industy is to show them a glimpse of hope, to see someone stand for them when they feel like no one else has, is the most fulfilling purpose I have ever had. So much so, that I start my own ministry, but first realizing I had to make my own children my first mission of purpose to assure they are getting the love and attention that I teach so many families. I preach and teach what I live by.
The opposition will always be there, trying to convince you that you are wasting your time. But let me tell you and everyone who is reading this!
Trying to protect children from abuse and neglect, no matter how small or how big of an issue it may be, will NEVER EVER be a waste of time! Even if means you yourself need to straighten yourself out to be one less negative influence over your these little tiny humans. Don’t let them knock you down, don’t let them get in your head. The opposition is only as strong as your purpose. My faith and protection keeps me going, and I will always love on these children, including the adult children who fall into the current and lose themselves becoming bitter and hateful. Something in them isn’t strong enough, but it’s up to us who stay fighting.. To see the root cause of all of this ugliness in the world, to never ever become it.
Blessings to all my loves.
Standing strong, as an army of love.