I GOT A JOB!!!!!

The title about sums it up! God has blessed me with a job! I am going to be a k-8 grade art and 7th grade bible teacher!!! I can hardly belive it! i move to Denver in 2 weeks!

I'm off...

to DENVER!!! i am going to get on a plane, fly for an hr and half to Denver Colorado, for......

An INTERVIEW!!!! YAY!!! I hope it goes well. if this is a place i a ment to be i pray that i will know when i visit and if not, i pray that i will know that too. I would apprecaite if you would join my in those prayers to our ever faithful God.
and in the mean time i get to visit a good friend for a brief day. what a crazy adventure life is!

Surrounded by the arms of love....

You know that feeling of being held by someone you care about? That feeling that you are totally safe no matter what and they will protect you? Well that is exactaly the feeling i have been having lately. Not of human love, but of my ever faithful Heavenly Father. I feel like i am lying in the arms of my Father and he is going to make everything alright.

I have been thinking about God's faithfulness alot right now and i have discoverd that i had alot to learn about God. But one thing in particular happened that made me think of God's ever present faithfulness.

I was driving with my mum and bro and dog in my car (2003 honda, i have had scince march) and i went off the road. I stupidly took a 90 degree corner on a gravel road going 35 mph. I thought i could handle it. My brother warned me, i thought yeah right, i can go this speed around the corner it will be fine. THe moment the words left my mouth i lost control of the car and we went hurdling into the ditch. After a few brief minutes of chaos we were upside down in the ditch. My car... totaled.... THankfully we had all being wearing our seatbelts and God proteceted us. What we came away with was a few bumps and bruises and a renewed trust in the faithfullness of our God.

My mums husband came, he cried over the fact that i was ok. Forgiveness. We drove up to a house, i was cold, appendiges were numb, these people took us in and offerend asssitsients. On the short drive over i thought... everything is going to be fine we are in God's hands. I had never had such peace about something like that. we got into that house, started talking with the wife and she was a doctor. Turns out her husband was an ex- autobody repair man and so she checked us over... you are fine she said... her husband looked at my car... totaled he said. THese people are christians and that made me think of my own wittness in the world. What providence. Only through the divine grace of God are such conections made.

You are not going to belive this....

First i saw the most amazing thing on my way home from school today. THere was a flock of birds circling a field in a perfect flying pattern, they circled around twice and then flew up up up and headed south. THis wasn't an orrdinary flock but it had a least 100 birds in it! It was amazing.

Other things you maynot believe are true (but are)...
... First i finish school on Friday!! i will be done very soon!

... applications for christian schools (not being Dordt) Ask this question in their application:
Describe what being a reforemed christian in contemproary soceity means to you?

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!

Why can't i find anything that i have already written like that? I swear i have written it at least 12 times.

Maybe i am not competent.... .. but then again

On Thursday my college supervisor came to vist my classroom for math. I had been off all day, i prepared my lessons so far in advance i had forgoteen what my plan was. So things had not been going well. My students were taking their own run of the classroom. I felt discouraged, then the talk came, and evlautation by my supervisor and then by my teacher. i went home, feeling un-compentant as a teacher. I felt as though i had failed, probaly the worst feeling in a while.

But then.....

.... Friday came. I was so mad at my studnets for acting out that i clamped down immeditally. I didn't allow for any talking to me while they were working, i made clear expectaions and clamped down on all talking. I am on my way to a teacher voice. I realized that you can have alot of fun with the studnets if you run an orrderly classroom. THey learn more, i get to teach more, and that is better. THings arn't perfect, but at least i am learning. It felt better to be successful but then i had to deal with all the "so...what did we learn" statements. Sigh. Only one week left!