Tiny Tuesday Post

It's amazing how God can use the people around use sometimes even to speak to the worried and fearful sides of us. I felt so loved and supported by so many yesterday. I'm glad those words were what some of you needed to hear, too. I appreciated the encouragement, too.

I have a phone interview Sunday evening with a call committee for a school in the St. Louis area. I was taken off-guard, but I'm pumped. :) If you don't mind, please say some prayers for the congregation and also for me as we prepare for this. They have other interviews as well, and those kiddos need the right person there with them. Thanks!

We teach those little ones how to share so well that they even want to share their stomach bugs. Aw, shucks. If I could post Meghan's poem about being sick right here, I would. Instead I'm going to call it a night and be content knowing that a few of you remember that poem and the talent contained within to sum up that terrible, sickly feeling.

Possibility Plethora

Came home from a not-so-hot day at school -- those "off" days are just unavoidable -- with a burdened heart, stressed mind, and the same headache that's been off and on since Thursday. Not so happy camper, you might say.

An email made my heart skip a beat as it revealed that my credential file not only has the potential to go out now, but it is going out! Tomorrow! To 5 schools!

My head nearly to it's bursting point, I quickly gathered up a stack of letters and walked down the street to the mailbox. And then kept walking.

Praying.

Thinking.

De-crabbying.

And building excitement.

Joy.

Optimism.

Hope.

Some things aren't worth worrying about. We can't control 'em, so why worry about them? God can use everything, anyway. So instead of worrying, get excited. Don't look at what could go wrong. Look at what could go right. I'm sharing these words because that's the attitude shift I needed, and maybe somebody else does, too. I wasted too much time even just today worrying about things that really won't matter next week or next month or next year, and not enough getting really psyched about all that could matter and be in that time.

I got to tell my kiddos today about Jesus feeding 5000 with the lunch of one boy, a meager lunch of 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. That was after the disciples probably looked at him with the same look my little boy gave me about the snake hole: "You're absolutely crazy and unbelievable!" Jesus not only fed them, but he made leftovers to boot. Clearly things always work out. God always provides far beyond our imagination.

I highly doubt that any of these first 5 places will work out, but who knows? I'm really just saying that so I don't get my hopes up too high. They actually look like some fun areas and decent schools. One's an hour away from home. What I do know is that these are doors opening left and right, and it's just the beginning.

I don't know where I go from here, but I know who I go with: the friends, family, and God who love and support me all the way through. It's the beginning of the end of one adventure and the start of a brand new one, and it's truly awesome.

This is it.

~"Do not conform to the patter of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will." [-Romans 12:2]~