Just Thinking

Wow, I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted!!!! So much has changed.

Here's the skinny:

I just recently, within the last month, started a job at Curtis Middle School in Allen, TX, where I am teaching 8th grade English and also serving as the assistant 8th grade cheerleading coach...yes, I am coaching cheerleading! When you take over in the middle of the year, there are certain things that you inherit.

Kristi, Gracelyn, Caleb, and I are still living in Plano, serving with Apartment Life as a CARES Team at an apartment community there.

I am also still serving at Resonance as a chord weaver (musician).

God has been teaching me so much during this time of more transition, and it has been refreshing, yet difficult to move back into the "working" world. I do miss parts of working "inside" the walls of a church building...doing church-type stuff, but I believe that God has commissioned me to be more intentional about being outside those walls. So, here I am on my lunch break awaiting my 8th grade, hormone-driven students. They have recently taught me much about patience! I look forward to what they will teach me today.

I hope to get back to blogging regularly now that I have gotten accustomed to the new pace of my life.

Let me close with a blessing that I read from Paul this week in his letter to the Romans that struck a chord in my spirit:

May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 15:5,6)