Tuesday, March 28, 2017
I teach the Bible lesson every day to my preschool kids. I love that I get to share with them my favorite stories and get to tell them how much Jesus loves them and has big plans for them. I know they are little, but each time I know that God is planting seeds of His love into their hearts and I pray that one day these Truths would come back to remembrance. I don't always know what the lesson is going to be that day. Usually the other teacher I work with hands me the Bible story card and I teach. Today she hands me the card and I notice that the lesson comes from John 11. The story of Lazarus. The story where a message is sent to Jesus that His dear, beloved friend is sick and needs immediate help. The story that Jesus makes the statement that this sickness everyone is talking about will not end in death, this story is unfolding according to God's plan and in the end God will be getting so much glory. He waits two more days before heading to see Lazarus. Before He heads to see him he tells the disciples that Lazarus is asleep but he is going to wake him up.
I know this story. I clung to this story for a very long time. This was the story that kept me going. The story that made me hang on to faith during those days that I felt like God was no where to be found. Those days were I felt like God was ignoring my plea for healing. Those days that I felt like He waited too late. I knew He knew what the situation was. I knew that people all over the world were bringing my name to Him asking him to come quickly, one He loves needs your healing. I fought through the tears as I realized that today March 28th started the whole journey. March 28, 2003 would be my first surgery/biopsy. I had been having some problems for almost 2 years. I had been sent home time after time telling me that I was young (25 years old) and that my body just needed to work itself out. After a year of "not working itself out" I would then go through another year of different medicines without any changes. I had had enough of doctors and medicine and I had decided that I was going to take their advance and just let my body work it out. I went three months without going to the doctor. In March of 2003 I felt a nudge (God) that I needed to go back to the doctor and tell them that I needed to have some more tests run. I went back the third week of March and kind of demanded that I wasn't leaving until something else was done. I had an ultrasound done that very day and it was clear that something was not right. So much extra tissue and the doctor thought for sure it was just endometriosis. On March 28th I would go into surgery to remove as much tissue as possible and then everything should be back to normal. They would do some biopsy of the tissue, but I shouldn't worry about anything because of my age and family history I was at low odds for it to be cancer. It would be just a few days later that I would find out that the odds where not in my favor.
I just find it interesting that the John 11 story seems to come up every time around this year. I guess I still need the reminder.
In other news, the new high school has a location for next year (🙌). The school was originally only going to have 9th and 10th grade, but because of the space they will be offering classes for junior and seniors also. So exciting, but also a little bit scary. Please pray with us as we look to God to fill these classes. I am sure that for many parents they would prefer to send their student to an already established school. Lots of unknowns when a school is just starting, but we are believing with faith that God will fill this high school with the families He wants to be a part of this school. Would you also pray for Jeremy? He is still working his regular job and is putting so many hours into this new school. He doesn't officially start getting paid for this job until July, but there is so much to be done and it has him working very long hours. I am not necessarily complaining about that (expect we hardly see him during the day 😞) because he absolutely loves being a part of this amazing opportunity, it just is taking a lot of energy out of him. He is at a high school fair tonight and our pray is that we will have a good number of families register for our school.
Well. I do not have any new pictures of the kids to post, so here are some from 5 years ago. These kids were just too cute!
I know this story. I clung to this story for a very long time. This was the story that kept me going. The story that made me hang on to faith during those days that I felt like God was no where to be found. Those days were I felt like God was ignoring my plea for healing. Those days that I felt like He waited too late. I knew He knew what the situation was. I knew that people all over the world were bringing my name to Him asking him to come quickly, one He loves needs your healing. I fought through the tears as I realized that today March 28th started the whole journey. March 28, 2003 would be my first surgery/biopsy. I had been having some problems for almost 2 years. I had been sent home time after time telling me that I was young (25 years old) and that my body just needed to work itself out. After a year of "not working itself out" I would then go through another year of different medicines without any changes. I had had enough of doctors and medicine and I had decided that I was going to take their advance and just let my body work it out. I went three months without going to the doctor. In March of 2003 I felt a nudge (God) that I needed to go back to the doctor and tell them that I needed to have some more tests run. I went back the third week of March and kind of demanded that I wasn't leaving until something else was done. I had an ultrasound done that very day and it was clear that something was not right. So much extra tissue and the doctor thought for sure it was just endometriosis. On March 28th I would go into surgery to remove as much tissue as possible and then everything should be back to normal. They would do some biopsy of the tissue, but I shouldn't worry about anything because of my age and family history I was at low odds for it to be cancer. It would be just a few days later that I would find out that the odds where not in my favor.
I just find it interesting that the John 11 story seems to come up every time around this year. I guess I still need the reminder.
In other news, the new high school has a location for next year (🙌). The school was originally only going to have 9th and 10th grade, but because of the space they will be offering classes for junior and seniors also. So exciting, but also a little bit scary. Please pray with us as we look to God to fill these classes. I am sure that for many parents they would prefer to send their student to an already established school. Lots of unknowns when a school is just starting, but we are believing with faith that God will fill this high school with the families He wants to be a part of this school. Would you also pray for Jeremy? He is still working his regular job and is putting so many hours into this new school. He doesn't officially start getting paid for this job until July, but there is so much to be done and it has him working very long hours. I am not necessarily complaining about that (expect we hardly see him during the day 😞) because he absolutely loves being a part of this amazing opportunity, it just is taking a lot of energy out of him. He is at a high school fair tonight and our pray is that we will have a good number of families register for our school.
Well. I do not have any new pictures of the kids to post, so here are some from 5 years ago. These kids were just too cute!
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