Sunday, September 5, 2010

class of 2016

I LOVE  MY STUDENTS!

This year has great potential. This Thursday, I get to meet many of my students' families at Open House. What a privilege!

So far, we've determined who the hottest person is in each class (based on hand temperature, of course). We've gone on naturalist adventures outside. We've talked about goal-setting. We've defined science and scientist. And I've had to talk about a lot of school policy (I don't really like talking; I like doing better :/ )

But this year... I've just got this steady confidence that God has such bigger plans for this year than I can imagine, even. Revival is coming. God is changing hearts, slowly at first... There is a definite difference in the attitudes of our school staff this year compared to the other years I've been at our school. Thank you Jesus. Now bring healing to every heart that will accept it!

This weekend is just making me more excited about school. Some good friends are back in town and it's fun to cast vision about Kitsap county. How powerful to pray over the students of our community!!!

I've used the weekend so far to......

  • Meet up with friends at (quite a few) pubs. 
  • Run a 10-mile roadrace over the Tacoma Narrows bridge. 
  • Lock myself out of the new house for a few hours. 
  • Recover from the roadrace in my friend Kendra's hot tub.
  • Celebrate two weddings in two days! 
  • Walk Greenlake with a dear friend and ministry partner.
  • Meet my new roommate Shannon's family (they're staying at our house tonight)
  • Comment on all of the 9th grade notebooks my students trusted me with for the weekend :)
And tomorrow...climbing on REAL ROCK!!! 

So, life is pretty fantastic at the moment. Did I mention it was sunny today? 

My class of 7th graders are the class of 2016. It seems so far away! But, I feel so privileged to have this year together with them. What an honor to be trusted with the future leaders of our community! Can't wait to know more about who they are and how they work. 

(Idealistic? Maybe. But I hope to always hope for the future!)

1 comment:

  1. Pom PomSeptember 6, 2010 at 7:12 AM

    Yay! I love your heart for them! They are blessed to be so cherished by you! I love you!

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Ephesians 5

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving. For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light – for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth – and find out what pleases the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. But all things being exposed by the light are made evident. For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:

“Awake, O sleeper!

Rise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you!”

Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise, taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil. For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is. And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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