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…
I’m so stinkin’ tired. I started teaching a Bible study tonight (which I planned before I knew I was getting a job as a Spanish teacher), and tomorrow’s the first day of school, so I’ve been furiously making preparations for that. I might not brush my teeth before I go to bed tonight. At our…
Here is the sequence of events: My heartfelt prayer that God will help me love and show great care for my new Spanish students. Looking in the bathroom mirror the night before the school open house, when I will meet all of these students for the first time. Seeing humongous zit on chin. Horror. The…
My son just started school again, and this I know about him –his favorite subject will be based on whatever teacher is the most fun. If a teacher is boring and fails to have a sense of humor, then Caleb will not like that class, regardless of the content. “Fun” is his simple sorting tool….
It’s a little scary being the new girl, walking into a private school full of teachers and administrators and secretaries and maintenance men. They’ve been laboring here long, and I’ve only put in one week. Who will I be in this place? I tidy the book shelves and make a nifty bulletin board. Hang a…
I don’t know what I love most about this -the fact that he’s fielding questions in prison, his passion for Jesus and the Bible, his ability to quote Scripture off the cuff… It’s 30 minutes well spent.
I dropped him off to head out to camp, but there were a lot of people around, so it had to be just a quick, Love ya. See ya tomorrow. My phone rang an hour later. That wasn’t a very good goodbye, he said. No, it wasn’t. I love you, he said, nice ‘n slow….
I heard all of these stories in one day: One young child with seizures. One woman up in the night with congestive heart failure. Trying to breathe. One mom missing an important birthday party and three days of work because of dreadful pink eye. One second-cousin with a broken foot, missing the first day of…
I was reading National Geographic, and staring at me from the page was Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a 42-year-old from Austria and “the first woman in history to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-plus-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen.” Shall I mention that I was winded after climbing the three flights of stairs to my daughter’s dorm room…
There’s nothing better than landing in a room full of people whose eyes light up over the same topics that light yours. I just spent two hours discussing how to get students to participate in class, so they absorb information. Fun, yes? We did this activity where we had to ask other teachers questions, and…
Dear Daughter, When you turned and walked the opposite direction on the sidewalk, my heart hurt. We climbed in the van to head for home, and you walked slow to your dorm room. For a full hour I tried to have mercy on the boys and not cry, but it took a lot of lip biting and…
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