So far, reading the book of Job is tied with Leviticus for most miserable read. (By the way, I’m now on August 26th of the one-year Bible mom gave me Christmas of 2011. Mmhm.) Job has ridiculous friends, and that makes me squirm, because I’ve been the stupid friend before. Many’s the time I’ve looked at…
Do you know how overwhelming it is to hear the bell ring and then to open wide your classroom door to a wave of teenagers you’ve never met? That was my first day of teaching. Today was glorious, now three weeks into the school year, because I feel like I’m finally starting to build rapport with my…
I wrote this blog post about how I had terrible insomnia the night before chaperoning a high school retreat and how I trusted God was going to be the power to help me rise successful. Yeah. That sentiment lasted, um, five minutes. I posted those words of wisdom and then promptly went upstairs and bit off my husband’s head….
Right now my life looks nothing like what I thought it would be, I said to the Lord. As I spent time in prayer, I kept mulling over my new job as Spanish teacher. A year earlier I thought I would be marketing a book about now. Instead I was writing lesson plans and trying…
Why are we free in Christ but it sure doesn’t feel like it? This 53-minute sermon by Timothy Keller is full of glorious hope and is well worth your time.
I was already a bit nervous about going to the high school retreat for school. It’s a two-day, overnight adventure, and I’m a bit more for book reading than adventure. But it’s such a great way to get to know students and play with them instead of being the teacher. So I went to bed…
He called on his way home from fly fishing, Get out the ibuprofen. Putting his foot down on a loose, slippery rock in the river, he twisted his already gimpy ankle. We rarely have conversations during the day that don’t include assessment of our physical bodies. Every morning Matt hobbles down the stairs on stiff…
Yesterday I assigned my beginning Spanish students to make vocabulary flashcards. They kept asking me, What does this mean? What does this mean? I soon discovered the vocabulary list had no English definitions, only the Spanish words. I had given them an impossible task. Oops. Today I shall help these poor students, by providing definitions…
She might have been slightly beyond exhaustion on Saturday morning, after her first two weeks of going back to work and first two days of teaching, when she cracked open the bedroom door and fell weeping into his arms. Can’t sob do sob all sob of this. Head buried in his strong, warm shoulder. He…
This post is a shout-out to my precious grandma friend who has been in rehab for more days than she can count. Diabetic and with recent leg amputation and congestive heart failure, your nights have lasted for what seem like 36 hours, as you try to catch your breath and get comfortable in bed. You told…
This is what it means to serve God. He is the center and has invited us to join in his work. If we play our part along with him, it is beautiful. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians…
Dear Church, A decade ago, when you called my husband to be one of your pastors, I felt worried about my kids. Pastors’ kids tend to go bad. I was worried you might treat my kids differently because of their position, maybe set expectations high. And you have. You have loved them more and have…
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