Prayer Request

It has been a very long time since my last post! This time I have prayer request: One of my students has runaway for the second time. Last time she was gone just the weekend and slept under a bridge then came to school. This time she ran away I guess this weekend and has not returned. She has a tough home life and just needs to be loved. Please pray for her to have a safe return and to be loved by her family.

On another note, school will soon be out! I am very ready for school to be out as the kids have become wild kids! This summer I will be working summer school :) At least it is only 4 weeks!

Saved and Single

A little something I found a few years ago. It is for all my single friends out there!!!


Saved & Single- Author

What makes you think that just because
I am an Attractive woman of Godly intelligence
That I'm incomplete without a mate?
Who told you that without a man
Something's missingFrom my life?
And if so,
What would that be?
Love?
I love myself
And more importantly
I love the Lord
He told me that when I delight in Him,
He will give me the desires of my heart
Security?
I have everything I need according to His riches in glory.
Intimacy?
Now, how's a man going to get to know me
When he doesn't even know who he is in the Lord
See my Father told me I'm above a ruby's worth
And a gem does not seek
It is soughtI'm single and that's all right with me
See,it's not that I oppose relationships
It's that I detest co-dependency
As a womanI know it is not my role
To chase after any man
Esther 2:14 reads That I am to wait on my king and when he's delighted in me.
He will call me by my name.
My Lord does not intend for me to be needy or desperate.
I am to be Cherished, Relished, Valued, and Honored,
It's not my job to convince him
Or Convict him of that,
My mate will already know it
And consistently show it
And he will stay on his knees daily
Not just to adore me
But to praise the Lord for
The virtuous woman he has found
So, when you see me by myself
I'm not alone
I know what I have coming to me
I'm single and saved, and right now that's all I need to be!

Being Equipped

I was listening to the radio on the way home, and the lady on the radio had a great quote I thought I would share.

"God does not call the equipped, he equips the called"

So many times we think we cannot do what God has called us to do, because we are not equipped. However, God really calls you to do exactly what he wants you to do, then he equips you to do what he has called you to do.

Why one should not wear baggie pants!

Friday most of my students were gone on a field trip. I had a few in one class and they were playing the card game spoons, but using markers. They were being pretty aggresive with this game. At one point, there were about 4 girls playing and 2 boys. Someone grabs a marker, and for some reason, they just don't grab a marker, the boys dive into the middle. They are both small boys, thankfully. One of them dives and then the other goes in. Well in the process of diving, he lost his pants!!! Thankfully not boxers! However no one else realizes except for me and another student who are watching from a distance. He is laying on the ground with his butt in the air for approximately 30 sec, finally I have to call his name, and ask him to PLEASE pull up his pants!!! He was rather embarrassed, but I informed him, that is why we wear close that are our size, not 4 sizes to large!!!

This has been a really good week! My grandmother had knee replacement surgery on Thursday, and is doing good. She is suppose to get out tomorrow! Please pray for fast recovery and for her coaches to have patience as O.P.S. is something she is diagnosed with (by her family at least)!!!

Love

This week God has been teaching me about loving others the way he loves them. As I reflect on the week I realize he has been teaching me this, it was not clear however, until tonight at church. Butch preached about Love. It was about allowing God to love you and loving others. God is teaching me how to love some of my students. Some are super sweet and easy to love, but others not so much. God is teaching me how to love them. I am sure many have parents who love them by allowing them to do what they want or don't love them at all. I have had one student this week ask me several times if I love him, "the way you love your students" as he said. I always answer with of course I love you, and he says, thanks, I love you too. Coming from him, that means a lot. As he appears and acts like a "hoodrat". I also have another student who went through a lot in August as a friend was killed. The way he deals with this, is he acts like he is King of the World. You know deep down, he is hurting, and there is nothing you can do. I have a lot of trouble loving him sometimes because he thinks he is "King of the World", and always has that attitude. At church tonight, God put it on my heart, that I need to work on loving this child and praying for him, as this is an act because he is hurting.

At church, Butch went over 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

If you really stop and think about this and what it means, it is hard to have this kind of love. I love when it says "Love is not rude", I had to stop and think, Cara this means when someone is rude to you, you cannot be rude back! That is NOT love.

I know this might seem like a lot of rambling (it is after midnight), but as Christians we are called to love all, we don't get to pick who we want to show love too.

Inauguration

At work today, we took our students to the gym to watch the inauguration. I was completely dreading this, not because I didn't want to see it, but because I was taking my WORST group down there to watch it, and I had to sit with them! This is a class of 14 boys and 5 girls (poor girls). I was expecting the worst, since they were terrible in class. However they were not to bad :) One student really impressed me though, he was really trying to listen to what was being said, even though he didn't understand most of it. He did understand when the prayer was being said though. He bowed his head for the prayer and was elbowing people around him to remind them to bow their head. When people were talking during the prayer, that really made him mad. He was hushing them and then leans forward and tells me "they are being very disrespectful, he is praying!" It was really nice to see him worried about people respecting Christ, even though he has NO respect for most people. We are working on that though! He has made big jumps from last year!

The Small Things

Why do people focus so much on what denomination people are? Our goal in life is not to "convert" everyone to Baptist or Lutheran, etc. During FCA today, one of the students continued to ask everyone what religion they are. Of course they all immediately say Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, etc. Which is exactly what she wanted to know. I explained that is called a denomination, your religion is Christianity, believing in Christ, which those denominations do. And like normal Jr. High students, they could care less what I was saying :) She was so focused on people "converting" between denominations, and her converting from Baptist to Catholic, "you know I have church on Wednesday called CCE, and we learn about Cat-a-lism and we do that cross thing with our hands" yes she did say that! She has no clue what she is "converting" to or why. She had no clue, one of the students was saying she was Mormon. This is the real reason we are there, here we have her there, singing praise and worship songs, and as Christians they were so focused on what denominations or "religion" they were or "converting" to, they missed an opportunity to share with this student. So as I write this, I begin to think, yes, I know they are Jr. High kids, but as Christians (I know I do) we get caught up in the small things, that we miss the big or obvious opportunities God gives us.

Blogging

I have never done this before. My Mom encouraged me to start one, so here I am. Not much of a writter so we will see how this goes! I am sure I will enjoy sharing student stories on here. They always make me laugh :)