As I have gone through the last few weeks and months, I have come to realize how much I enjoy working at this maternity home.  Now, I know most of you are wondering what in the world I'm smoking, but seriously!  I love working with these women.  Through working in a field that I really enjoy, I have realized my flaws in how I've looked at work in the past.  I realized that I never asked myself how can I get better.  What can I add to my character and personality that would help me improve myself as a person, but more importantly in my relationship with God.

The Bible says "Whether, then, you eat, drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Cor 10:31)  "Whatever you do, do your work heartily as for the Lord rather than for men." (Col. 3:23).  So, I'm not working just to get by in life, or even to prove to man that I am a capable worker, but as a sacrifice to the Lord, not for salvation, but as a response to the grace and mercy He has lavished upon me.

So, my goal for the next 5ish months that I'm hear is to really see areas in my work and my life that I can allow God to improve in me.  I am so far away from being perfect, I can't walk around not looking for the things in my life that need a change.  So this is my prayer, that my eyes will be opened to the needs around me and in me.  That God would move in me to draw me closer in likeness to Him.

As you pray for me, please also lift up the residents that I work with.  It is so hard to be away from family and friends during the holiday season.  With Thanksgiving having already passed and Christmas so close, I know they are beginning to feel more and more sad.  But also for them as most of them are trying to restore awful family situations that will never work out save an intervention from the God of all Comfort and Healing.

Y'all are such an encouragement to me.  I am so blessed to have family and friends who care so much about me!

Love to you all
Melody
1 Peter 1:7