The busy school year is approaching and here’s three ways I’m planning for a more simplified year.
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I want to have a talk with the person that coined the term “fake it ‘til you make it.” Where are we going? Why are we faking it? Who decided I could do this all on my own and what kind of story will I be able to tell when I finally do make it and I faked it the whole way?
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Five books I can’t wait to get my hands on this summer!
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There have been many hail storms in my life when all I could do was think, “Lord, why couldn’t you send me a sign? Why couldn’t you give me some kind of warning? Where was the foreshadow, Lord?”
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Now, I see that my dream only has to break the borders of my own heart. I have come to understand that I can’t let the fear of “too small” or “too tiny” shelter my dreams in a box, but that in dreaming right where I am, I have the ability to see my world a little differently.
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The Lord knew that I needed to start this race when I was a younger me so that I would one day be able to understand just how much I need Him because while I thought I needed Him then, nothing compares to growing older and realizing just how much of this life I cannot do alone.
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Thus, my word of the year is not some great, magnificent English vocabulary word that I want to study, write in my notebook, and post on my bathroom mirror for daily reminding, but instead it is a way of life -- a phrase that I want to remember, and carry in my heart as I encounter 2018 with messy first-year teacher meltdowns, lesson plans, comprehension questions, and early morning coffee on the way to work.
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