After a particularly challenging day at work, I'm learning to choose a new recipe to attempt. Today it's butternut squash and some kind of egg and sugar mixture. It's in the oven now.
Baking is solace because it allows me to actually watch something I touch turn into something better, something tasty.
All these separate ingredients aren't particularly fabulous on their own. Raw eggs aren't even technically allowed to be eaten anymore. Sad day when that was decreed. Not that it stopped any of us from stealing cookie dough out of mom's bowl.
Sometimes working with people feels like I'm only working with one ingredient. And I only get to play one part. Most of my work is built on hope.
The hope that my small part in a kids life is enough to add to the pieces in their life. Enough to at least get them through a rough patch even if it's messy. I get a glimpse. I am thankful for that glimpse. Heartbroken too at times. So incredible that kids survive and even thrive right where they are at.
Today I'm leaning on hope. I have to. I have to trust that something bigger than me cares so much more for these kids than I do. I have to trust that one day at least most of them will find how to live their life in the absolute best way they know how.
And I have to leave it at that.
So here's to all the people who choose to be kind. You may never know how far a kindness can go. You may never know the fullness of the part you played. But I hope, that when life is rough for you, someone is kind to you too.
Oooh, something smells really good. Time to get that butternut squash out of the oven and enjoy a completed project.
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