The last week has been filled with training. First I was involved in a SYIS (Sharpening your interpersonal skills) workshop followed by a ladies retreat. My mind is full of many things that I hope to go back to and study more closely in the weeks to come. In spite of the days being draining, it was less tiring than […]
(From Pental.com) Teaching brings out the best and worst in me. Some days I feel like I have hit a home run. My students are engaged and understanding what we are learning. Other days I feel like I strike out. I do everything I can to explain a concept and I get no where. Or the students decide […]
This mural was made by students at my school the week before Spring break. Each month we learn about a character trait so those traits are in creatively displayed on the wall of our program. So I noticed that I haven’t shared my quotes in a few months so hopefully I won’t list too many. From Charles Spurgeon: “He who […]
Hanging onto Hope and Psalm 71
(from www.strangecosmos.com) The absence of hope, I see it in the eyes of the beggar children tugging on my sleeve desperate for me to give them something. I hear it in the comment of a student who has lost family when he says, “what if we die by then…” I feel it in the desperation of a father’s question as […]