Love Hurts

This year is a wonderful year. Yet, all the lessons are still really hard. When your children hurt you hurt with them, and when they laugh you laugh with them. During these emotions you are relying upon God's Grace to lead them in the way they should go. Holding on to His promises that all is working for His Glory and He is doing great things in their lives. I need to be praying even more for the parents of my kids. Love is the greatest gift but the hardest task which causes the greatest heartache. Yet, all is still for the good. I am so thankful for these lessons now so when I have my own clan of children I remember these moments and will be able to be thankful.

Mama Bear

I don't think I can have kids. I want to have tons of them but the world may not be a safe place if I do. Today in class my crew was walking out a door and some older kids dared called them little kids. Oh my goodness! I was very thankful at that moment for the gift of self control. In my brain I was thinking OH NO YOU DIDN'T!! All of this emotion only because He dared called my kids little! If I am blessed with Marriage I will have to have a strong Husband to help me resist the urge to fight my children's battles for them. Otherwise the world may not survive Mama Bear.

My Classroom

Before After
I am sitting in my classroom and the rain is pouring down outside with flashes of lightning. My soul is nourished by the sound. I am sitting in my classroom. A little place that 12 children come everyday to here what God wants me to teach them. Oh my heart burst with joy for I remember where I once was and can not help but have tears of joy. For God so loves His Children and I feel His love so deeply right now in my life. Just like I have gone and redeemed a space to make it mine for my children I am even more reminded of Christ redemptive work in my life. How he continually cleans me of my residue from before I was His.