Honestly? I had myself a little weep in the car on the way home yesterday. This teaching thing is hard, probably because I bounce out of bed planning to be Ms. Perfect Teacher of the Universe and, well, you know. Actually, I was the Perfect Teacher for a few minutes yesterday. It’s like an eclipse…
So I woke up on Monday morning, after having spent hours over the weekend writing Spanish lesson plans, picking up the house, catching up on laundry, and prepping four meals for the coming week. And now I was feeling like a complete failure. I moped around this house all morning going through a mental list…
The sky pushed in dark and low, causing us to turn house lights on in midafternoon, and I got my hopes up that we might see the first snow of winter. But no –only a drizzly rain. Sigh. I sweet talked that man of mine into driving me to Costco for some chicken. On the…
I just had a talk with Jesus while doing the laundry. Grabbing the wet clothes out of the washer, I threw them in the dryer. Then I grabbed a Bounce Fabric Softener sheet and tossed it onto the wet heap of clothes. Softener. I wish I could get me one of those for my soul….
My grandma wrote newsy letters to the family on a regular basis, typed all the way out to the edges of the paper. She wrote about what the birds were doing in the front tree and about how well her garage sale went. She wrote about what was available at the food store and about…
Within a half an hour I heard it twice. First it was my man on the phone, calling me on his way home from work. How was your day? he said. Nothing spectacular. Well, it’s not always specatular, he said. Then it was my dearest friend and neighbor wondering if I had any Ro-Tel tomatoes,…
I recently tried to pray for someone and experienced an unusual feeling of hopelessness, which made me panic. I had this feeling like even if I prayed nothing would change. This was a strange faithlessness for me. My prayers continued but always with an undercurrent of, Lord, will my prayer to you really change anything…
I heard my husband’s heavy footsteps on the stairs, and I came awake from my morning napping spot on the couch downstairs. (The life of an insomniac.) I stretched and thought, Oh no, it’s awfully light out! Running to a clock I realized it was 7:40, and I had heard nary a sound from my…
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:4 NIV) See what love looks like in this man’s story. Do we love Jesus this much?
That man of mine swung home and took me out for lunch. It was just a quick bite at a fast food place, but it was a precious hour with him. Then there was the girl at the counter who looked at me with dead eyes and smiled not. Nor did she ask how she…
Yesterday I attended my first pep assembly at the Christian school where I teach. The state volleyball and soccer tournaments begin today, so we needed to make some noise. I snuck up to the top of the bleachers, out of the fray. I didn’t know what to expect, as it had been, umm, a short…
Because I talked to a young mom recently about stress, with the home schooling and the four little kids and the new puppy, I’m going to be brave enough to tell you there have been times in the last five days when I’ve thought I might fly apart from stress. I’ve been enjoying everything I’ve…
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