 |
Witness
Re-thinking My Savior Complex
My hardest lesson as a social worker? God wants me to be close to the brokenhearted as much as he wants me to save them.
Molly Skawski
|
Twenty-four
years old, conscious of my lack of preparedness and certain I would
choke on my words, I stood on a dusty country road with a heroin addict
whom I had come to know and root for. I was advising him to surrender
his parental rights before I asked the judge to terminate them.
Caseworker
jargon tumbled nervously out of my mouth, but my stilted words did not
matter—he knew what I was saying. We had prepared for it. He and I had
always called this scenario What Could Go Wrong.
By the time ...
|
| Read More |
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Re-thinking My Savior Complex
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment