Christian Social Worker

Two years ago I wrote this post about being a Christian and a Social Worker. I guess there isn't much out there on the internet about this topic, because people are still finding that post in google searches!

I am still a social worker and a Christian. When I wrote two years ago, I was working for a public university in a wonderfuly clinic, and I loved my work! I worked for a terrific program and I felt passionate about the work I did with families and children.

Now, I am working for a Christian non profit organization. Truthfully, when I went into social work, I always envisioned that my faith and my career would be more linked than they had been. I had worked for a church and feel strongly about sharing the love of Jesus. So I was so excited to take a job at a Christian agency.

What I am reminded over and over again, is that just working in a Christian environment doesn't somehow make me more Christian. If my heart gets far away from Jesus, and I get distracted from keeping the first commandment in first place, then it really doesn't matter where I work. If my heart grows cold, then I have little of importance to share anyway.

In the field of social work (and other helping professions), we have that unique opportunity to serve others as our career. The problem is, our hearts can often get over burdened and we can begin to lose our passion and heart for service and begin to just perform a job.

So my encouragement is, if you are a social worker, therapist, nurse, or whatever, pursue the Lord today! It matters more what is in your heart than where you are working. If your heart is full of the love of Christ and you are listening to the Holy Spirit, you will make a difference to others!

What do you other Christian Social Workers think?

Back in Heels

After two years and three foot surgeries, I am proud to announce that I am back in heels! There were times when I thought this day would never come.

I have worn heels for the past three days, and while I admit my feet are a little sore today and I didn't wimp out in the middle of the day and change into old lady shoes!




I sure am glad I kept these around instead of putting them in the donation pile!

Sweet Boy

How can you not love this face?

With his sweet mama who I met about 10 years ago when she was in my 4th grade Sunday School class!

Got Her

Ah, she does love that heater. I tricked her with the camera on my phone. Sweet puppy. She had shots and a teeth cleaning today.

Scaredy Dog

As opposed to scaredy cat.

I adore my dog Abbie. And I wanted to show how well I have trained my dog to LOVE all things warm. Tonight I turned on my space heater and she got up so close to it that her nose was touching it. She loves to be warm. In the 100 degree weather, she will snuggle up completely under a blanket. She and I share a love of warmth.

What we do not share is a fear of the camera. My dog is terrified of my camera. I figured this out the first day I had it and she was my only model. She ran and hid from it. It did not work out well.

Tonight I wanted to take a picture of my dog pressed against the space heater. Abbie has not even SEEN the camera since June. Over three months. I pulled the camera out very nonchalantly and she immediately went alert and started pacing. And then, she got under the bed. Completely under the bed.

After I took this picture, she got so far under the bed that I could no longer even get a picture of her. I will have to work on my stealthiness.

Nothing much

Not too much to say. Things are going well in the Towers house. Being married is fun. Of course, Lance is awfully nice. That probably is what makes it so fun.

Tonight I found out that I lost a lot of money from a Target gift card. I was so sad. I am not entirely sure what happened, but basically when I made some returns off our registry, a very helpful (and very young) cashier offered to combine all of our gift cards onto one. And gave me an empty one back.

I had been saving the gift card (with $150 on it) for something special and tonight with a cart full of fun stuff found out my "big" gift card was empty.

I tried not to be too sad. But I am.

I am also sad that now that summer is gone these beautiful flowers are dead. Sorry for the sad post. Maybe I will buy some mums for fall

Lance and Holly

Our benefit auction for Christian Services was just over one week ago. It was a huge success in helping us continue to minister this year!

This is one of Lance's favorite wins at the Auction:

You can get our own cake pops at www.cakepopcastle.etsy.com. Lance has enjoyed giving them out to people they resemble! Which I am sure people enjoy. Actually, I enjoyed picking out the two that looked most like us, although there weren't too many options since there was only blond headed girl and she did have a pretty worried look on her face. I really don't feel this nervous when I am standing next to Lance.