sharing resources

School is out.
Or at least my teaching of it.
Summer school is in - for me! :)
I love learning!

I also love sharing resources with fellow sojourners. Lydia Brownback's blog has consistently been a great encouragement to me, so I share it with you.

Enjoy!

worthy investment

I continue to marvel at the joy that comes from investing in others. We were definitely created to live in community, to care for one another, and to corporately enter God's throne of mercy. However, often the risk involved in relationships in scary. Alongside the joy is pain. Disappointment. Hurt. Even anger.
Yet still, we are called - command! - to love one another. It is good and right and true.

C.S. Lewis speaks to this as well.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C.S. Lewis. The Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis. New York: Inspirational Press, 1994, 278.

new post needed

Yes, I definitely need to write a new post soon.
And a "heart" post.

For the meantime, suffice it to say that it never continues to amaze me how the Lord works.
It is such a blessing to look back on the events recorded in Scripture and the events in my simple life to see his hand leading in such clear, unmistakeable, God-centered ways.

May He again be praised.

release

I have held many things in my hands and lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
-- Martin Luther

funny friday

I really should make a quotation book for all the hilarious things students say. I feel like I don't capture those moments often enough. In any given day, there are a multitude!

Here are a few from today. Remember I teach high school!

"Are cashews peaunuts?" (Said in all sweet sincerity).

"I don't want to touch that bug. It might 'get' me!"

"Miss S-------, you should paint your toenails. They are
nasty!"

(That was the funniest one today. No shame...!)

more signs of spring

signs of spring