This will be my last blog post. I'm not done with my internship yet, but I only have 4 days left. During that time I have to finish my final written report, send out the final directory, and write a short paper for school. Today I gave the organization a final presentation of my findings and gave my personal 2 cents worth. It seemed to be received well, but I can only pray that God gives them wisdom to use that work the best way possible.
I have honestly learned way too much on my internship to make a list. Some things I'm still learning. All I can say is that I've grown a whole lot in so many different ways this summer and I'm thankful for that as a result of spending 12 weeks living and working in Miami. It's true that every year I've grown, I have found God bigger. After this summer, I don't think I could find God any bigger (but I'm sure I will).
The next chapter of my life is coming up so quickly: Senior year. I do not plan on pursuing more education after Covenant (I'm just not the studious type). I hope to find a job in community development or in ministry of some form. After being in Miami, I realized I could probably handle going internationally after the MASSIVE amount of cultural differences I observed here. Hopefully there will be an opening for financial literacy teachers in St. Louis.
I will leave you with one final all-encompassing thought: You remember that song from Prince of Egypt? The "Look at your life through heaven's eyes" one? Cheesy? yes. But at random points that song has popped in my head ALL SUMMER. During my time in Miami, I was overwhelmed with the amount of problems here. There is SO much poverty and injustice and it takes on such incredible forms. How the heck am I, a single (as in 1) white female supposed to effect these monstrous issues of the city? Even though I haven't seen a direct fruit of my labor this summer (and probably never will), I take peace in knowing that I'm just a thread in the tapestry of the Kingdom of God. My work may seem small and insignificant, but that's were the great power of my God steps in and takes my small mentoring directory and uses it to further his kingdom.
Thank you all for your support during the trials and tribulations of my summer.
Love Love Love,
Becky Joy Valkenburg
God bless you my sister!! :)
ReplyDeleteafter college...can we all keep blogging because reading everybody's thoughts as they go through life has been very encouraging to me this summer and obviously during the year we'll be together...but then..!! so thoughts?
The first thing I thought: OH NO, I'm going to miss your blog posts!!! THEN, I realized: I'm about to be WITH you in PERSON. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSeniors. That's us. Yipes.
"Look at your life through heaven's eyes." That song used to make me cry. So cheesy but SO good.