I taught 5th Grade for ten years at the same elementary school, in the same classroom, teaching the same subject every single one of those years. One could say I had grown incredibly comfortable in my role and could teach 5th Grade Language Arts sitting down with my eyes closed
I have always been the peacemaker in relationships. In high school, I would try to mediate between my parents and siblings if they were in an argument. In college, friends would come to me for wisdom and counsel when they were going through a difficult situation. But if I’m being
I recall as a child looking forward to Christmas with so much anticipation. Would I get the bike I was wanting? What about the new baby doll? As I grew into a teenager, I was waiting on a new outfit or piece of technology. My anticipation grew week after week
Recently I received a distressing email from a friend who has served as a classroom teacher for over four decades. I had asked her how she planned to spend her summer, and she indicated that she was going to take the weekend off to rest but would be working on
Before he ever wrote, “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,” Paul was known by another name: Saul. And back then? He wasn’t writing letters to build up the Church. He was traveling city to city trying to tear it down. When I read Ephesians 1:1,
I was just nineteen years old when my mum died after a very short illness. Although it has been a long time now, I still remember our conversation and the final words she spoke to me on the night before she died. They are precious words that I treasure. They
Over in the Blink of an Eye Have you ever spent a lot of time and money on planning and executing an event such as a wedding, a work event, a birthday party, etc.? How did you feel when it was over? Did you feel like it measured up to
The Main Characters One of the things I really look forward to every Christmas season is the annual nativity play with the kids in church. Of course there are the main characters, Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus, but then you add in a few shepherds, wise men, angels, the inn keeper,
As God Sees Fit When my kids were young, they loved playing with play-doh and Perler beads. I love watching the things they would create! Plates full of pasta, rainbows, super heroes… but sometimes they didn’t like their own creations. They were stuck. They would get frustrated, upset, and mad.
But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.