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Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: I Wanted To Be


>I want to share something deep on this subject.  I've gone to mental health 
>day treatment for around 20 years now.  There were a few times when I tried 
>jobs that were short-lived here in Idaho, including times when I thought I 
>wanted to "get on with my life".  Now I'm going to a place called Affinity, 
>where I had left for Daybreak Mental Wellness which I liked much better but 
>eventually closed, so it's back to where I don't really want to be.  I 
>tried just having someone work with me for a few hours a week, but I found 
>it unsafe for me to stay home so much and wasn't following through much 
>with getting a volunteer work.  So I decided, with tears,  to go back to 
>Affinity.  But my attitude is changing some.  Yes, it's possible for me to 
>remain in this kind of environment, but that doesn't mean I have to do 
>things that are less important than other who seem to be working hard and 
>"really helping people".  I've thought of Joseph, the slave in Egypt who 
>ended up in prison for something he didn't even do!  Yet it was an 
>important place to serve The Lord.  I'm seeing that where I am is a 
>just-as-important place to plant seeds and help the other clients-which is 
>a big area of interest to me anyway!  Technically a client?  Yes, but what 
>an opportunity to serve!
>
> So Lord, if this is where you want me right now, thank you for this 
> privilege!
>