For these next few months I am a child behavior aide - we diligently work to help children change negative behaviors into positive one using rigid structure, consequences and abounding measures of love and patience. Everyone always wants to know what exactly Behaven is - the best way to describe it is the 'problem kids' you know of in schools, day-cares, etc. are the ones who come to Behaven. We work on behaviors ranging from being unable to focus and follow directions to more serious behaviors like aggression, spitting, etc.
I love it. I am loving being employed full-time at a job that I am passionate about and challenged by!
During my three-ish weeks of unemployment between graduating and starting last week I had a lot of time to just be and pray. A lot. There were many long runs and sits by the lake nearby praying, praying, praying. I've been praying for years that the Lord would use the passions he has given me and fit me into a job that uses all of that - plus, when I'm engaged in my passions I enjoy myself most. Who doesn't?
While I was praying - where am I going to go, what do you want me to be doing, I need a job, etc. - God was busy doing what he does best. Putting me right smack dab where He wanted me to be, when he wanted me to be and not a moment sooner. Let me show you a slice of the road map that got me to this job.
1. Becoming an RA in 2011, where I was on staff and found some of my best friends, including Miranda.
2. In the Summer of 2013 I run off to Colorado for two weeks to 'find myself.' I give up because I felt God telling me to go back while I was climbing up a rock. Had I stayed in Lincoln for those two weeks I would have been desperate for a job and found....who knows.
3. On the drive back to Nebraska from Colorado, Miranda hooks me up with a job and I'm on the payroll 15 minutes from hearing about the position.
4. Because I was employed for Summer, I didn't need to look for a Fall job until late August, where I found the Nanny position with Thatcher (2013).
5. Thatcher and I attended countless PT and OT appointments at Madonna, where I developed friendships with his therapists. They get to know me pretty well.
7. I pick up an application at Behaven and inquire about positions - at the time they weren't hiring but said fill out an app anyway. I was semi-disappointing, but if you spend enough time out at a lake praying, praying, praying, sometimes things happen - like peace. Sometimes peace is weird when your brain is freaking out about bills and life and you have no job, and yet, you have unexplainable peace.
8. Just after I get the application filled out a very close friend winds up in the hospital, which kept me in Omaha a fair amount of the next week.
9. After he recovered, the next day another friend got hit by a boat and that delayed my application drop-off by another two days.
10. I apply for other jobs and get an interview at a normal daycare (puke). I set-up the interview half-heartedly - I did not want to work at another daycare. Not what I was hoping for after earning my degree...Two weeks have passed and I figure, well...might as well drop the Behaven app off. I do so the day before my daycare interview.
11. During the interview, I missed a phone call. The phone call was from Behaven! They wanted to interview!
12. Long story short, positions were suddenly available. And here we are today. :)
God is good. Sometimes mystifying and difficult to understand and constantly more patient than I but ultimately He is always good.
The End.
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