I sit here bewildered and completely excited at the prospect that the next year of my life holds. A short week ago I figured I would be staying home with my sweet ones for another couple years, at least until Aiden starts kindergarten was the plan.
Our plans have changed in a whirlwind.
I look at all that’s happened and I joyfully accept this major change
that has come about because I can’t see it as anything other than God’s divine
plan for my life. More importantly, His plan to use me for the glory of his kingdom! I am delighted to be used by my Savior in ways still unforeseen to me. I sing, “Where you go, I’ll go, where you stay, I’ll stay, where you move, I’ll
move. I will follow you!” joyfully as I prepare as much as possible for the journey ahead.
You see, for the last 5 years I have taught in a predominantly upper and middle-class elementary school on the east side of town. Now, God is leading
me to teach middle school in a very rough, what most people would call the ghetto. Yet I fear no evil, for God is with me. Not many teachers would willingly make a move like this. I’m not most teachers.
Being a radical follower of Jesus is what I am striving to be!
I know that I will be teaching so much more than just mathematics to
these 6th graders next year. How this will occur is still a mystery to me but not to my Father. He has had a plan for our lives since the beginning of time.
Wonder fills me as to how his plan will unfold. Will I have the opportunity to lead a student group in studying God's word? Perhaps it will be the teachers that I impact and lead to Jesus. Or, maybe there is a specific family I will meet on my journey who I will be able to help and, I pray, bring to Jesus. Maybe I will be a liaison between this school and my church to bring the gospel to many. Even better, maybe it will be all these things and more!
Don't get me wrong, I have had very mixed emotions about this situation in the days that have passed. My primary stumbling block emotionally is that I will not be home with my sweet little ones 24/7 any longer. I am once again going to have to trust them to someone else's care. But, just as God provided the perfect caretaker for Addyson for the first 2 years of her life, I trust that He has someone for Addyson, Aiden and my sweet one who will be arriving around November.
Although the thought of missing out on time with these sweet children is very sad to me, it is even more sad to think of missing out on an opportunity God has already designed. I can't bear to think of anyone in this "ghetto" perishing because I wasn't willing to go when my Lord said, "GO!"
I am just grateful that after all my time “following” him my eyes have actually been opened to truly GO and follow where He leads.
I am ready to make a difference for the Glory of God!
Our plans have changed in a whirlwind.
I look at all that’s happened and I joyfully accept this major change
that has come about because I can’t see it as anything other than God’s divine
plan for my life. More importantly, His plan to use me for the glory of his kingdom! I am delighted to be used by my Savior in ways still unforeseen to me. I sing, “Where you go, I’ll go, where you stay, I’ll stay, where you move, I’ll
move. I will follow you!” joyfully as I prepare as much as possible for the journey ahead.
You see, for the last 5 years I have taught in a predominantly upper and middle-class elementary school on the east side of town. Now, God is leading
me to teach middle school in a very rough, what most people would call the ghetto. Yet I fear no evil, for God is with me. Not many teachers would willingly make a move like this. I’m not most teachers.
Being a radical follower of Jesus is what I am striving to be!
I know that I will be teaching so much more than just mathematics to
these 6th graders next year. How this will occur is still a mystery to me but not to my Father. He has had a plan for our lives since the beginning of time.
Wonder fills me as to how his plan will unfold. Will I have the opportunity to lead a student group in studying God's word? Perhaps it will be the teachers that I impact and lead to Jesus. Or, maybe there is a specific family I will meet on my journey who I will be able to help and, I pray, bring to Jesus. Maybe I will be a liaison between this school and my church to bring the gospel to many. Even better, maybe it will be all these things and more!
Don't get me wrong, I have had very mixed emotions about this situation in the days that have passed. My primary stumbling block emotionally is that I will not be home with my sweet little ones 24/7 any longer. I am once again going to have to trust them to someone else's care. But, just as God provided the perfect caretaker for Addyson for the first 2 years of her life, I trust that He has someone for Addyson, Aiden and my sweet one who will be arriving around November.
Although the thought of missing out on time with these sweet children is very sad to me, it is even more sad to think of missing out on an opportunity God has already designed. I can't bear to think of anyone in this "ghetto" perishing because I wasn't willing to go when my Lord said, "GO!"
I am just grateful that after all my time “following” him my eyes have actually been opened to truly GO and follow where He leads.
I am ready to make a difference for the Glory of God!