How Can This Be?

How can this be? I have completed my first full year of teaching?!?
I would say yes! It was a miracle! Nothing short of Gods miraculous hands a part of each detail and day! Nothing short of a dependent heart, soul, mind & body upon my Savior! It was a tough year! The kids were a tough audience for sure, their behaviors very tough at times to manage... With the biting, hitting, kicking & swearing... It proved to be a challenging and scaring year both figuratively & literally, I have the battle wounds to prove it, just ask! So yes the kids were tough, but at times the staff was harder.... But honestly our last month of school was the best, God eliminated the "problem staff" member & there was peace like never before... Despite being way understaffed, everyone worked so hard, and like champions, we finished off the school year strong!!
So like I said, super tough school year!  But I am so thankful for your honestly and truth from way back in October! When you told me it would be a tough school year, but you told me... You would be right there! And that my Savior was! So yes I felt so defeated at times, but so thankfully I can say I never did give up, because Christ was my strength and shield! So all glory and thanks to Him I made it through my first fully year of teaching and have that under my belt! I learned so much and grew so much! 
So as the year came to a close... There also came the opportunity to sign for a second heat as the Intervention Specialist for the Marion Step by Step classroom! I so desperately wanted to say no! But as I sought The Lord, he made it so clear that I was to stay! I may not understand or completely see why! But I am so thankful He knows why? We shall see? It may be to share Jesus with one of my coworkers Jenn who is becoming one of my friends and seeking truth, it may be simpley be to continue to love the unlovable! It may be to grow even more as a newer teacher! It may be all of the above! But whatever it is! I still say wherever you send me Lord use me!! For this is the cry of my heart! Never let me forget!


Also use me in the moments when you have me at home with my family, even through the pain and bitterness and ungodliness that is so present you could cut it with a knife! I know I have been called to intercede on behalf of my family! So that is what I shall do! For I love my family! So there is nothing I want more than to see my dad set free from the bondage of anger, bitterness, expectation, money & greed, for my mom to just be happy and not worried and for my brothers to know Jesus and His truth and oh for my parents marraige to be restored and healed! I know that I serve a God that is able so once again I choose to step out in faith and believe it to be so! He is able!

I am so thankful for:
   *a love for my Savior
   *a best friend who loves her savior more than anything else, for all her prayers, love & support
   * a teaching job
   * health 
   *forgiveness 
   * room to grow
   *freedom to worship
   * a great safe car
   * memories (big & small) oh and pictures to remind me of the memories :)
   * a love for reading 
   * healing 
   *relationships
   * opportunities to share Jesus
   * opportunist to trust & grow my faith
   * that I will have the opportunity to go to Mexico soon!
   * summer 

Thanks you Jesus for so much!