Finding God

Jeremiah 29:13-14 "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord

These past two weeks have been very long. I miss my class from last year a lot. Partially I think because they were my first class, but also because they were a lot of fun. The class I have now is full of large personalities and I have not yet figured out how to control them. Even when they seem to be doing better in my class, they act up in every other class. Anyways, all that leads to a teacher that is exhausted at the end of the day and in search of refuge. God, as always is faithful in allowing himself to be found.

 God sightings these first two weeks of school

• Having a group of teachers that gets together and focuses on eating healthy by fixing food for the week together every weekend.
• Being prayed for by the Korean church where I volunteer.
• Having a refreshing and restoring weekend with my church.
• Building a great relationship with one of the third grade mothers during out church retreat.
• Reading prayer journals of students who earnestly are praising God for who He is as the creator of the universe.
• Having staff devotions every week with videos of Francis Chan.
• Having an amazing prayer group with other ladies that work at our school.
• Being reminded of the image of God in each of my students as they presented posters about themselves.
• Seeing how interested my students are in each others' lives, even if it means 13 of them are asking questions at the same time and none of them can be understood.
• Meeting up with an old family friend, who was incredibly encouraging and having dinner after an especially tiring day at school.
• Hearing from the doctor that even though my foot is in pain, it has healed really fast. 
• After a Starbucks conversation, walking home and realizing that I believe Abba has put a number of things in place to lead me to Indonesia in a few years (I really have no idea when, but I'll wait on His perfect timing). 
• Seeing the courage of a student in my class who is not only going through chemo, but willing to share about all the details with his classmates.
• Watching students decide to help each other with their work after I had told them they could draw or read, but had never even suggested helping other students.

Wow! Things seem to change completely when we look at the great things God has done!

Please be praying for my student with leukemia who is going into treatment on Monday and will not be in school for 2-3 weeks. He turns 9 tomorrow. Also be praying for two of the third grade students in the other class who do not know the Lord.