Working at the daycare was fun. Exhausting but what fun! Playing with children each day and teaching them. After working for a couple of weeks I was given charge of the 4-6 year olds. We had so much fun together! Science projects, worm hunts, art projects, playing superheroes on the playground, walks, stories, kindergarten drama, and even nap times.
I got on well with my boss. She and I had different ideas about religion but she was free to talk about it and asked for prayer regularly. She was struggling deeply though—working on getting a divorce, being single mom to her 5 year old, beginning a new business, didn’t have a working car and having health problems. On top of all this in May her mother died. At the end of May her health problems came to a head and she was taken to the hospital in an ambulance a couple of times. She had to close her business which was only just getting going. Car repair bills, her little girls needs, emergency medical care without insurance, trips home to see her dying mother, and a business not yet on its feet all led to in incomprehensible debt.
She is a sweet person and I watched and prayed as her life fell apart before our eyes. I prayed and prayed and things got worse. Sadly she couldn’t pay me the last month and I don’t ever hear from her anymore. I can’t imagine what she is going through… I don’t know how she goes on and I still pray for her often. I learned so much from this experience! About how hard life can be, about how so many live and in contrast how incredibly blessed I am. What will God use that experience for? I pray I was at least some comfort and help to this woman—some picture of Jesus.
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