I make sure anytime something difficult comes my way I always worry about it first. How will I fix this? How will I get through this? How will I survive this? I, I, I. After a good stomach-churning moment or hour or few days, I remember I have help. Then I make sure to have…
I’m torturing my Spanish students by making them conjugate 50 verbs. Five verbs, four tenses each, every day for two weeks. Write, write, write, write. Turn the page. Write, write, write, write. Turn the page. I threw out a big word to them called automaticity. This is when we are able to process information involuntarily and without…
I’m awake at 12:57 a.m. thinking about a few people, and the result is eyebrows furrowed and gut in knots a bit. Relationships will do that to you. Sometimes the anxiety of caring about people is like wet socks on a cold day, and you wish you could simply yank them off and find relief….
I don’t know what kind of person you are at the pool, but I’m one to sit on the edge of the shallow end and put just the tip of my toe into the water. Then five minutes later the whole toe. And by the time everyone else is toweling off I’m just about ready…
This link is for my little girl, but y’all should watch it, too. Honey, you are about the most generous spirit I’ve ever met, and I have no doubt God has and is going to use you to change people’s lives. Big bills. Little bills. Operation Christmas Child boxes. Subway card handed out the car window to…
I cannot believe God describes his relationship with us as bridegroom to bride. As you watch this video, consider the effort God put into his proposal to us. “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’” (Jeremiah 31:3 NIV)
I was sitting in a long lecture hall in college the first time I heard the word “objective”. In education lingo, that means thinking way ahead to the target of what you want your student to know by the time you’re done teaching the lesson, and it has to be demonstrable. The objective is written…
Last night I needed to write a blog post to you, but instead I sat and snuggled on the couch with my man, and we watched a few inspiring YouTube videos. To his credit (and it’s his birthday today, by the way), he endured not one but two wedding proposal videos, with my head tucked into his shoulder,…
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….
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