December Prayer

After a few weeks of a busy schedule, I'm ready for things to slow down with this week and with Christmas break. With the recent tragedy in Conneticut, I can't help but take a moment to "take a deep breath" for the parents and families, neighbors and friends of these families who've lost loved ones. We don't quite understand why God calls us home at certain times but we have to trust that HE knows what he's doing. A neighbor and fellow teacher in the JacksonR2 District said it perfectly on Facebook recently.....

God is in our schools. We teachers love and shepherd our kids every day. Students care for their friends and try to live their lives as witness to their faith. Prayer groups meet, Bibles are carried and read, and the pledge is recited. Yes, "under God" and all. I do not lead my students in prayer, but I pray for them. I don't read them Scripture, but I love them and they know that my classroom

is a place of love and acceptance. No one comes over the PA to pray, because what prayer should it be? My students are Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal, Mormon and yes, Atheist and Agnostic. God is in our schools because God is love, and love is present every day. Students and teachers who are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Atheist, and Agnostic are loving, caring, supporting, laughing, crying, hugging, and high-fiving each day. If God isn't in a school it's because individuals are waiting for someone else to take him there. It is our responsibility to bring God everywhere we go by our actions and the testimony of our lives. "No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us." 1 John 4:12

 

This hits my heart hard because what better way to handle God in schools than this? God is good all the time and all the time God is good. HE takes care of us like a Father takes care of his child. Those children are in heaven and running, jumping, laughing, playing with their new bodies and with their smiles towards Jesus. They are finally home.