Day Eight

Honestly, the days seem to fly by now when I'm so busy living life and at the end of the day when I'm posting about what I'm thankful for that day, I'm like wow! I just started doing this and already I'm on day eight! So today I am thankful for my job. For many reasons. For those of you who don't already know, I work at Arkansas Skin Cancer and Dermatology and I see a lot of things in a day, most espcially skin cancer. It's amazing how many people are walking around with it and they haven't a clue. And it's my job to assist the physicians and the drs who are helping these people and I really am honored to be doing that. I used to work at a desk as a receptionist, which is extremely important in any office, but I was ansy. I wanted to be doing more in my day, and now I'm doing so much that feels like I'm actually being impactful. I've met a lot of different people this way and it really is rewarding. While I loved my previous job, this job makes me go home at the end of the day tired from the work I did and I think that's a good feeling.

While I'm thankful for the opportunity to help people, more than anything I'm just grateful to be working. When Ben and I graduated college I found myself understanding the gravity of the terror that there wasn't a solid clue where I would head with my career after we moved to Arkansas. We came on behalf of Ben's job and we were so incredily blessed that they offered him this position before he even graduated. But I was so unsure and kind of scared. Being unemployed is a terrifying thing, and having a baby not even a year old on top of a new place to live? It's a lot to try and grasp all at once. But I've been lucky because God has taken care of me and I have a job that I work full time and it allows us to pay our bills. There are so many people without work right now and more and more I'm hearing that 1 in 5 families in the United States are going to be hungry at the end of the day and I have fat on my bones. These people aren't in another country; they're my neighbors. They may even go to church with me. And that's unbelievable. So I'm grateful today that I have a job to support my family and take care of us, and meanwhile I'm taking care of others too.