Praise the Lord!

I still have a few things that need to be done before Monday. But done or not, the students will be here Monday morning. I'm looking forward to a new year, with new challenges, and a few new faces. No matter what happens I believe the Lord's promises. This was the daily Bible verse that I got in my email yesterday, Psalm 94: 18,19: "When I said, 'My foot is slipping,' your unfailing love, LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy." WOW! is all I can say. The LORD knew exactly what Bible verse I needed.

That's not the first time a Bible verse that I NEEDED showed up. I really don't like to travel, but earlier this summer when I was packing, this verse got stuck in my head, "The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." (Psalm 121:8)

What a wonderful God we have that wants to help us through every trouble. It gives me joy that I get to share my faith and what God has done for me with the students entrusted to me.

Now I get to go to Kohls's and pay my bill!

God's blessings

Still Gearing-Up

It's Saturday, August 20. That gives me a week to be prepared for the children that have been entrusted to me for the coming school year.

My goal for today is to spend a number of uninterrupted hours getting the classroom ready. There are a few yearly plans that I have yet to finish, but I plan to do that today. Our classroom library shelves are empty. I'd like to get those filled today, also. The laptop that I'm working on needs a few software updates…I think that I can do that while putting out the library books.

As I look across my desk and into the classroom I wonder what the school year will be like. It's not that I'm worried about the year.  Recently I read this somewhere: I am not worried about the future, because God is already there. The new Koine CD is playing while I write this. The song that just got done playing reminded me that Christ is in us. What a blessing! What a blessing that we have the privilege to share that awesome fact!

God's blessings…

Matthew 5:14,16

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Mid-August - Gearing up for school!

Everyday people ask me if I'm ready for school. I tell them, "Right now, no, I'm not ready. But I will be!"

Teachers start getting geared up for school long before most students. Lots of planning goes into being ready for each new school year: desk arrangement; name tags for desks and lockers; get out library and text books; planning subject matter; finding tech projects; blowing up the flat playground balls; labeling students' workbooks; handing out student books; arranging piano/guitar lessons; making home-visits; creating bulletin boards; and numerous other things. I keep a list from year to year of tasks that need to get accomplished before the students walk through the door on the first day of school.

I have confidence that it will all get done!

God's blessings

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.