Wednesday, May 3, 2017
I know it's a little late at night for me to be writing a post (and it's not Sunday), but I have been in a little bit of a funk this last week. Lots of little things that have made me a crabby. Things that are not new to my life like kids who refuse to use the dirty clothes hamper in their room or too many people in the kitchen trying to get lunches made in the morning. Just day to day things that I usually take in stride and work around them. I have found myself apologizing much more these past few weeks because my words or actions have been harsh.
Before Spring Break my class at school finished up our Bible curriculum so we are now just supplementing and will be teaching different lessons that were not covered in our book. So last week I started teaching the kids about The Fruit of the Spirit. I introduced all nine of them and then have been talking about each "fruit" individually. I found these cute coloring pages online and printed them off and colored them so I could have a visual for each characteristic we were talking about that day. They turned out really cute so I decided to laminate them to keep for next year. I took my pages and laminated them today and as I was cutting them out I realized that one of the pages got crinkled in the laminater. Oh I was aggravated! Now I would have to print a new one and color it and then laminate it again. I was getting so upset at something so silly and then I finally realized what was printed on this crumpled paper, JOY. I seriously laughed out loud in the teacher's lounge. I am trying to teach these students about what it means to have JOY and show JOY and I was doing the exact opposite these last few days. I have been letting the little crinkles and crumples of life come in and steal the joy from my heart. I let silly, insignificant events and situations turn my day upside down and my heart was convicted. Maybe you are having one of those weeks, or months, or maybe even your life. A season where your joy vanishes at the slightest unexpected circumstance. An annoyance makes you grumpy at your spouse, kids, coworker, or the lady at the grocery store. I hope you will be encouraged to ask God to restore the JOY to your life even when things didn't turn out like you had planned.
Tomorrow night is the second High School open house. Please pray with us that families will come check it out and that God would move in their heart to enroll their children. There was an article written up today about the high school if you would like to read it, click on this link .
Before Spring Break my class at school finished up our Bible curriculum so we are now just supplementing and will be teaching different lessons that were not covered in our book. So last week I started teaching the kids about The Fruit of the Spirit. I introduced all nine of them and then have been talking about each "fruit" individually. I found these cute coloring pages online and printed them off and colored them so I could have a visual for each characteristic we were talking about that day. They turned out really cute so I decided to laminate them to keep for next year. I took my pages and laminated them today and as I was cutting them out I realized that one of the pages got crinkled in the laminater. Oh I was aggravated! Now I would have to print a new one and color it and then laminate it again. I was getting so upset at something so silly and then I finally realized what was printed on this crumpled paper, JOY. I seriously laughed out loud in the teacher's lounge. I am trying to teach these students about what it means to have JOY and show JOY and I was doing the exact opposite these last few days. I have been letting the little crinkles and crumples of life come in and steal the joy from my heart. I let silly, insignificant events and situations turn my day upside down and my heart was convicted. Maybe you are having one of those weeks, or months, or maybe even your life. A season where your joy vanishes at the slightest unexpected circumstance. An annoyance makes you grumpy at your spouse, kids, coworker, or the lady at the grocery store. I hope you will be encouraged to ask God to restore the JOY to your life even when things didn't turn out like you had planned.
Tomorrow night is the second High School open house. Please pray with us that families will come check it out and that God would move in their heart to enroll their children. There was an article written up today about the high school if you would like to read it, click on this link .
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| Now this brings me so much JOY! Watching my son take notes at the Bible study tonight. I think he took better notes than me |
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