When Josephine and I toured J.H. Williams Middle School for the first time, the place that most intrigued me was the library. I’ve always loved to read, and my old dream as a younger child was to be a librarian. However, when I asked a worker at the local library where we used to live in Sussex, Wisconsin, she said you had to be at least coming out of the eighth grade to even volunteer during summer break. I was so disappointed. “But that’s forever from now!” I had told my mother. But as it turns out, God is faithful again, even to the smallest desires of our hearts.
Once we got enrolled at J.H. Williams, on the second day of school, we immediately went to the library. The librarian, Mrs. Deshotel, was so kind, and once she saw our love for books and helping out in any way possible, she assigned Josephine & I a job every morning: to turn the computers on for her, so kids could take Accelerated Reader tests before class started. Every morning after that, as soon as we entered the building, my older sister and I would rush to the library, and our time spent there was the best part of our day.
As the months passed, Mrs. Deshotel gave me the passwords to her checkout desk computer so that I could check other students’ books in and out so she could have a break and tend to her other duties. I also helped with re-shelving books, and soon I came to the library for recesses too. I spent so much time in the library that a teacher once asked me if I worked there! Not really, I had replied, but I spend my mornings and my recesses there, helping out. I got to volunteer in a library, much sooner than I had ever thought!
My wish had come true! I enjoyed my time in the library helping out so much, and I was delighted when I was asked to help out with the Scholastic Book Fair when it came during my extra time in my English/Language Arts Class, with permission from my teacher, which I was granted. I would then finish all my work early so that I could go to the library again. Book Fair week was really busy, and I mostly did pretty boring jobs, like standing around and watching to make sure no one had sticky fingers, but after the Book Fair was over, the library went back to its usual quiet state, and my favorite place to be. God blessed me with a kind librarian, a school library needing help, and granted my dream to volunteer, or have a “job”, at a library!
Isaiah 58:11 “And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your desires with good things...and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”
Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Trust God and delight yourself in the Lord, and he will grant you the desires of your heart, for nothing you desire is too small for God to notice!
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