Saying Grace

by Kendra Scott

I’m going to start this off by doing what my family calls “Gratitudes.” It’s what we say as grace before a meal, a way of saying ‘thank you, God’ for the good in your day so far. As I see it, this interning experience was my spiritual meal. So I guess I’m doing my grace after the meal.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned during my internship couldn’t have been planned. It came about from simply watching everyone around me enjoy their days in all of the departments I worked in. To be honest, I’d never had a 9-5, sit at a desk with a computer sort of a job before…or any conventional job, really. I’ve always spent my summers being a camp counselor. And then during the school year, I worked as a life guard for a 4 or 5 hours each day.

So I guess you can predict what my thoughts were as I thought about being inside for a whole day. But watching everyone around me enjoy themselves so thoroughly, and treat each other with such love, there really was no way I couldn’t catch this infectious love for my day.

Mary Baker Eddy’s definition of morning is the perfect way to describe my ever-growing love for each day for the last three months of this internship: “Morning: Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress.” Each morning, it was like I caught a little bit more of this love for my day from the people I was working with. So in turn, instead of just trying to get though a 9-5 day, I’ve learned to find even more joy in my days than I had in my past jobs, which I loved. On an even larger scale this was really a lesson on finding love for the day, wherever I am.

I’m not sure if I could sum up what I’ve learned here more than that. I’ve learned so many new and different skills, and I can say that this experience is going to profusely enrich what’s to come next for me. I know for anyone who’s going to, or has been an intern, will most likely say the same. I’m going to be building houses with Habitat for Humanity with much more determination, doing my school work with more focus than I had before (for example, taking a project head-on because I love what I am doing rather than how I would be graded), and regarding the people in my life and approaching my day with more love.

Rub-a-dub, dub, thanks for the grub.

Amen.

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