Time Just Flies

Once again, after saying...I should blog more...time has passed and I haven't blogged for a month. Has is just been a month? Feels like so much longer. I suppose I can say...school started and I have been substituting more. Both are true, but still, blogging doesn't take too much time.

Well today is Mom's birthday. So far she has spent the week celebrating with Grandma's coconut cream pie and spring break. Tonight I am making a new chicken and rice dish from my new cookbook. Then we head back to school and reality tomorrow. I am so grateful for all of the wonderful encouraging words Mom has shared with me during the past two weeks. She really is one of a kind and I love her dearly.

Graduate school is well on it's way. This week was spring break, after only three weeks of class, but in a semester with only eleven weeks it's still nice to get a week off. I tried to work ahead on some papers and keep back on track after being sick the week prior to spring break. Amazing how a little stomach flu can throw a wrench in the plans to be an overachiever. I have also been asked to take a long-term substitute position, at the school I did two semesters of my student teaching. It's for third graders, which is exciting because I think that may be the grade I would most like to teach. I will be in the same classroom for a minimum of four weeks, but could be there until the end of the school year(seven weeks). I am very excited about this learning opportunity and can't wait to see what it will be like and how much I will grow as a person and teacher during my time in the class.

The rest of life is pretty simple...nothing terribly exciting beyond graduate school and substitute teaching. I am grateful for routine and structure, making the days more eventful and motivating me to do my best in everything.

Sagebrush Community Church has been AWESOME lately. I have been going to the Highland and Eldorado campuses mostly, but enjoying Riverside once in a while as well. I love the worship and Todd is so great at teaching God's word in ways that I immediately apply to my life. We have been doing a series on the Lord's Prayer, going piece by piece. This week we finished the Lord's Prayer. Todd preached on "Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever" from Matthew. Without God getting all the glory, we are just walking the earth just fill space, but when God's kingdom is the heart of our lives, great things can happen. In my weaknesses, He is my strength.

"The first will be last and the last will be first."
Matthew 19:30

But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so taht Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10

May God bless you as winter ends and spring begins.