Day 6
Hearing Screenings in Grad School Clinic:
One audiometer. One clinician. One kid. Nearly sound-proof room.
Hearing Screenings in the Real World:
One audiometer. One SLP. Four K5 kids. Not anywhere near a sound-proof room. Gym class across the hall. Parent talking on cell phone in hall. Toilet flushing next door. 3 kids not being currently screened whispering and scootching around in chairs. Cars flying past outside. Swine-fluey kid in corner of office (which is shared with the nurse) hacking up a lung and retching into trash can.
I love my job. And I’m not being even a little facetious.
Onward.
Faith: absolute conviction of what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1).
Without my absolute conviction that I am going to spend eternity with my Savior, I honestly don’t know how I’d get up in the morning. He is my hope for the future and my strength for today.
Made for Eternity 
Oh my! That reminds me of “there’s the ideal and the real deal.” Obviously you are dealing in the real deal! I can almost picture it, and I can certainly hear it!!