After graduating last year, Keya Thompson’s son Charles Bonds Jr. had spent his months out of the classroom relentlessly searching for a job.
Charles—known affectionately as Bam Bam—has filled out applications to work all over Gonzales, Texas, but hasn’t managed to be hired by a single person. Feeling discouraged, he broke down to his mom, who penned the beautiful interaction on Facebook:
“He asked me, ‘Mamma, is it because I’m special?’ And, of course as a mother it brought me to tears,” she writes. “I told him, ‘No, you just have to push even harder.’”
That’s just what he did!
“Nobody would give him a chance, but God is good and heard my baby cry and answered his prayer.”
After a long journey of submitting applications and getting his hopes up for just one phone call in regards to a job he desperately wanted, Bam Bam was finally hired at Whataburger.
“He tells me, ‘Mom I’m not going to give it 100% imma give it a thousand percent.’ And I know he will!”
Watching her son learn and grow through this process was acknowledgably difficult, but Keya takes heart in Deuteronomy 31:6.
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
“God might not come when you want him but He’s always on time.”
