Thanksgiving...

As I go into the last week before a week long break I am scrambling to prep for the week, entering grades, listening to a podcast and sipping on tea. Life is happy.

I am trying SO HARD not to wish this week away. Kansas City is waiting and I CANNOT wait to reconnect with friends I haven't seen since July. BUT I still have a week of life to live here. A week to love on my kiddos. A week to live life with my friends HERE.

We are such fast-paced people that it is hard for us to slow down and enjoy the time we have now. There is always something more fun or more exciting going on TOMORROW and we look to that time, leaving the down time we haven't even lived yet in the dust in anticipation for the fun of tomorrow.

I pray that I won't wish away this week. That I would embrace each day that the Lord has made. That I would find Jesus in the center of each moment. That I would recognize his sovereignty in EACH moment. That I would seek out each unique quality of my 4th graders this week and that I would love them for it...because Jesus does. I pray that I would give the Lord my weak moments. That his strength would shine through them all---and that my students would recognize that their teacher is only strong because Jesus is strong through her.

I have many hopes for this week.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:10

I am thankful for my weakness. Because when I admit my weakness, He then can be strong through me.

Enjoy today!