Growing

Oh dear me! It has been far too long since I've written! I can't believe I didn't even write about the newest member of my family! Lily girl! She is an adopted black lab, retriever, shepherd mix! She sure has grown over the past few months! I rescued her the second day I came back from Portland. My boyfriend new it was over when I said, "Will you help me put Lily back." Yes, I had named the pup before I even left the store. I held out one day and went back the next to get her! Little did I know she was a very sick baby! The reason why she slept so much was because she had no good bacteria in her! Once we got her healthy, she was a bundle of energy! Workin' on puppy training classes now at Petsmart! Didn't know training was so much work but Lily is a smart little, or not so little anymore pup!

A new school year has begun and I am still getting to know my 17 precious Fourth Graders! We do have a lot of fun together and laugh a lot! Most recently we enjoyed our study of Egypt by making each other toilet paper mummies. We also got to "part the Red Sea" for our Tirzah novel study! The kids decorated characters from the book and used the Popsicle stick to part the sea. The jello idea was not a Schreck original, found it online!

Thought I'd share my bulletin board and door theme...Time and the waterfall to represent the school verse: "Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it." Proverbs 4:23

Chapels have been a blessing too! Our kids were so excited to put together boxes for Operation Christmas Child and did such a great job!

One of my friends from High School had a long awaited wedding a week ago. We enjoyed sharing in her special day and pray for a wonderful and blessed marriage!

Lovin' the past six months with this special guy! He's workin' hard at USC finishing up his degree!

Momma turned the big 5-0! Be proud! We revisited Hawaii and enjoyed some delicious chocolate pie! So good to be home and share the love! Can't thank God enough for hand picking my momma-an amazing woman of God who fulfills Proverbs 31:30!

Can't praise the Lord enough for being able to share the Gospel with a student and rejoicing with others! Seeing a middle-schooler write "I gave my life to Jesus today!" is just incredible! God really is at work at NCA in a special way!

I feel like I am beginning to realize that teaching is a hard job, now more than ever. That being said, I had the song, "He is With Us" by Love and the Outcome in my head this afternoon. "We can trust our God...though it might hurt now, we won't be ruined." Trust. It brings freedom. All the thoughts, questions, and concerns laid at the foot of the cross, no better place to be.



As God continues to challenge me, I am blown away at how He always knows just what we need! I was reminded of the necessity of prayer in James 5:13-20. Always so many thoughts that could be shared but I'll leave it at that for now. What is God teaching you this week?