Category: Teacher
Blocking Me from My Goal
I was in my first year of teaching and at this time I had one of my first challenging students! My student teaching assignments were…
They All Need His Touch
My first teaching position was as a substitute for Tacoma Public Schools. I did that for about five months and then I was offered a…
Imposter Student
Imposter student! I had a professor in the teaching program at Central Washington University who used this title to explain insecure feelings that people get….
A Consistent Response from God
This was written as I approached graduation and was looking toward my first teaching position. From the journal . . . . May 1996 Lord,…
The Very Best
When I journal, I usually just start talking to the Lord. Like any relationship, some things are important, or even desperate on my part, while…
I Don’t Know How to Be
In 1989 I began sensing the Lord calling me to become an elementary school teacher. I had thought for years that when my kids were…
Overwhelmed Again
There is nothing new under the sun. So it’s no wonder God uses the same strategy to encourage His people as He did thousands of…
Take Prayer Out of School? Not Gonna Happen!
When I started teaching in the public school system, I made it a priority to begin praying for my students before they came. I asked…
May God Be Glorified in the Good Times and the Bad
This entry is long. It begins with a victory one day and catastrophe the next. You may not relate to my specific circumstance, as a…
My Urgent Dreams
Dreams are weird. Some are prophetic like we find in the Bible. For example, there was Joseph’s dreams about being used by God (Genesis 37:7-11),…