Sometimes my life as an RA gives me situations that I have no idea of how to handle. Something bad happens, and I find myself feeling as far from optimistic as a person could possibly be.
I am generally a positive person, but this job does teach to be careful of expectations. When I am always expecting good outcomes that are not to be found--I am more likely to be disappointed by an honest reality.
So, I have learned to lay my expectations aside and to discover in real-time what the outcomes of these lives and these efforts look like.
This week, something incredible happened within some of the relationships on my floor. People that I was fairly certain would never speak to one another again have found a way to make life work. They have begun a resolution that I never would have expected.
When I first found out, I felt like having a party for them…it felt like high time for a “Bible Style” celebration. (This generally includes killing the fatted calf, enthusiastically dancing around in circles, and some serious shouting…all of this happened--minus the dead animal)
All of this to say….
We find more joy in the things that we do not expect. There is power in letting go of expectations and in letting God shock you!
Because he does!
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