24 hours a day I am responding to residents. I respond when they break rules or show disrespect, and even when they get locked out of their room 8 times a week. I drive car-less first year students to the doctor and make midnight hospital trips. These are my chances to build relationships.
I am also supervising a staff of resident advisors, responding to their needs and questions. I work with them in group settings, 1-on-1, and impromptu meetings when their life seems like it's falling apart. I think of my supervision as a direct training of my staff on how to be more caring and helpful adults. At the same time, they are learning to be more organized and quality people.
Romans 5:5 says, "God has poured out His love to fill our hearts. God gave us His love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us."
Since I've received this love from the Holy Spirit, it will flow from me like a river. Water from a river flows into a space, enriches and fills that space, then flows on to fill another space. Wash, rinse, and repeat. So my day is spent going with the flow, wherever that takes me.
"Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it."
~Hebrews 13:1-2
About 5 minutes after I had written this yesterday, a guy who ALWAYS gets locked out came and knocked on my door, because yes...he was locked out. I laughed and thought to myself, he's one of the angels I was meant to entertain. *insert Newsboys song here*
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