I have made it to the halfway mark in my internship at Southern Exposure this summer. I have completed 150 hours. Its been a long 150 and a busy 150 hours. I keep being asked by co-workers if I’m learning a lot. I am. Nothing like how to chop or temper or anything like that. But a lot about real life jobs. How to work with people of ever kind. How to not become like those who you work with.
The one thing that keeps playing them in my head is LOVE. LOVE is such a powerful thing. When you love some one who you don’t agree with it stretches you and challenges you. And that is what this summer is about for me. When you work for someone who thinks, views, acts and believes differently than you the only way to get through it is to LOVE. LOVE God, LOVE them and LOVE what you do. This is a challenge of my everyday. But I try to live out 1 Corinthians 13. I try to be patient. Kind. I don’t boast. I try not to envy or be proud. I refuse to get easily angered. I trust, hope and persevere. I trust God to help me to be a light to my co-workers. I hope that what I do and say makes an impact. And I continue on taking each day at a time.
I don’t want to make it sound like I hate my job or everyone I work with because I don’t. I have enjoyed it immensely. But like all jobs there are challenges. It has been a great experience so far and I know it will continue to be.
God must be stirring in our generation, the feeling and meanings of love. I am constantly thinking about love and what it looks like to pour out love to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.