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Christ-follower, Wife, Mom, Daughter, Teacher, Sister, Aunt, Lover of Disney, Saints, Gamecocks, Random

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Crazy Love

This morning I received some news that grieved my heart in a very unusual way. A teacher here at Calvary died. She was the other fourth grade teacher, we weren't close, but she was very sweet and kind. What grieved my heart more than here passing was how it would break the students hearts that I love dearly to hear this news. She is with Jesus and completely healed. I don't know if my fourth graders or the other fourth graders are going to get that. Like many they will just miss her dearly. We haven't told the students and as the clamored into the room today I had to draw back tears.
It's going to sound weird but we were talking the other day about having a true broken heart. None of them have ever felt that kind of brokenness before. I told them not the kind of broken heart from a crush or a boyfriend or girlfriend. The point was that God is always their. I didn't want to have to see their broken hearts. I will tomorrow or at the end of the day today.
I took Kris's book "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan it's an amazing book. Today I was reading "You Might Not Finish This Chapter". It was very fitting. Chan say "Worry: implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives." He talks about how life is vapor. That resounds very true on a day you lose a co-Worker.
He goes on to say that lie is kind of like a movie. Where we are like an extra and you might see our hand in the whole movie but we still think the movie is about us and not God. "Isn't life always fragile? It is never under control"-Chan.
He started out the chapter with think about all it take properly for us to survive all the organ we take for granted unless your don't work like my Co-workers.
It' so crazy how we constantly think this life is all about us. Who made us? Who gave us life? Who gave us the things around us? Who forgive us of the wrong we do? God! So why on earth does would we ever think that this life is all about us? I know I do. I forget all that God has done for me on a daily bases. One day I won't be able to forget, but one day their will come a day where I won't be able to tell others about God's glory and what He has done for me. I forget that the point of my life is to point to Him and His glory.

I hope that you will go and buy CRAZY LOVE and contuine to fall more crazily in Love with the One who made you and Love's you and wants to spend eternity with you!

Pray for my students and the Co-workers family please

Monday, March 1, 2010

The Most Wonderful Time of Year

Today is March 1st. It is probably among my top favorite days of the year. March is my MOST favorite month. It's a time for re-birth for all of the things that have died over the past seasons. March means the best weather, the most beautiful smells, and BIRTHDAYS.
March, I like to think, is the month that God created just to tell me that He loves me. I know that is really selfish and not true. But it's nice to think that. I love spring it's the GREATEST of the four seasons.
Spring is all wrapped up in God's love and unfailing faithfulness to us. Just look around during spring. Things that have been dead for the past two or three seasons. Come back to life and are more beautiful than before. They show God's glory through their colors and fragrance.
We are like the flowers that die and fade out but God brings us back to his Glory so we can glorify him even more. We smell as a sweet fragrance to Him as we come back to show His glory.
I hope that you love this month as I do!