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Friday, May 6, 2011

great is God's faithfulness...

For many of you, this is repeat news. But I wanted to post it here on my blog as well. I am just so excited!!!

After praying for full-time work for over a year, the pieces have finally fit together for me to have full-time work. This interview came up very quickly. I applied for the job last Friday, they called me on Tuesday, I interviewed Thursday, and I have the job today!

My technical position title is Community Care Clinical Coordinator at The Children's Home of Cromwell. I have been working there since January as a part-time one-to-one aide for an eighth grade student. I have enjoyed working at CHOC and it was actually my first choice of agency to work for when I moved to Connecticut. To actually have the opportunity to work there full-time is just another answer to prayer. The position is a part of a new program beginning this summer at CHOC for adolescent boys with autism and pervasive developmental disorders. Essentially, my position is to ensure that the follow up care provided after the boys are discharged is a seamless a transition as possible. I assess the family environment prior to discharge and I make sure the clinical plans are written in language that the family can understand. I research therapeutic care possibilities within the client's community and ensure that it would be a good fit for the current plan. I will also provide some case management for each client as needed. I'm sure there are many more responsibilities that I will pick up, but that is the basic gist of my position.


I am salaried, I have benefits, and the agency will provide me with supervision so that I can begin to earn my clinical hours toward my professional counselors license. It really is a good deal for both myself and the agency as once I earn my license, I would be able to serve them in other ways as well.

I am literally just so amazed at how faithful God is right now. I have spent the last year wondering what God has been wanting to do with my degree and my life. In that, my faith and trust in God has truly grown. I have been less of a planner and controller of things that I want to happen and instead have really begun to pray on them and take ownership of myself and of who God created me to be, trusting that it would all come together in God's good timing. I thought that I would want to up and move to Boston or New York as soon as I could, but instead, I'm finding that I just want to stay in Connecticut. I feel so at peace with staying here and working in this position right now. It truly is amazing because I really thought that I would never get to this point again. But here I am. And all I can think about is how faithful God is and how much He loves me. That God has been faithful this whole time and that it has been all in God's good timing for everything to come to fruition. God is so very good.


Thank you for all the ways that you have been in my life over the last few years as I have transitioned from Chicago to Colorado and now to Connecticut. I am so excited to continue on in this next season of life. I hope that life is going well for each of you and I would love to hear about the blessings in your own lives.


Have a wonderful weekend!