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Life Notes: Staff Members Display Gifts of Love, Comfortby Catherine Beard Writer's Note: Louisiana Methodist Children's Home has one goal as an agency – family. Our mission is to provide the love inherent in a family to our children and to return them to a family, if at all possible. We have been around for more than one hundred years and have seen programs and employees come and go, but the one thread that runs true is family. Perhaps a recent illustration of how "family" matters to us can be seen through the eyes of Mrs. Catherine Beard, our dedicated receptionist. "A couple weeks ago Tammy Stevens (now Purchasing Supervisor for the Home) came into my office carrying a small, neglected, little plant she found at the Dollar Store down under other large plants. It could not get any sunlight or nourishment and would soon die, but Tammy saw something in this tiny neglected, rejected, unloved, abused plant that no one else had seen. She picked up the plant, paid for it, and bought a bag of good rich potting soil. She planted it in a big pot, watered it and placed it in a nice sunny area on the back porch of Webb Hall where I could keep an eye on it and water it as needed. With much love and care, we watched this once neglected, rejected, abused little plant begin to grow and now it is a happy, loved, nurtured, pretty plant with much potential of growing into a lovely Butterfly plant that God has intended for it to be. Over the past 20 years Tammy(a house parent in the 1980's) has seen many young girls come to LMCH who were much like this little plant… neglected, rejected, abused, unloved… and she has taken them under her wing, becoming a loving "mother" figure for them, helping them to become all that God intended for them to be. Many of these young women today having left LMCH years ago, call or come by to see her because she was "there" for them when they needed her most, helping to bring them to new life just as she did for the little plant." There are many others like Tammy, who share that special gift of seeing the "diamond in the rough," the "beauty in the midst of ruin," or the "sun shining behind the clouds." Thank you to all the people who touch our lives daily –What would we do without you! Life Notes: Complete List 2007 2006 The Life Notes articles are written by staff of Louisiana Methodist Children's Home and are published in The Ruston Daily Leader. | |||
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