Five days left of work! The past week has been the slackest; I love it! No more late night planning, endless marking, having to deal with hormonic raging, ETC. I'm glad to have a break and am SO looking forward to summer. Next year is going to be interesting but I'm excited - I'm teaching Grade 7s for the first time! Thankfully, I have huge support and a lot of materials to peruse from the teachers at my school.

It's been an interesting two months (going from the date of my last blog) on all levels. God, in His infinite wisdom and love, allowed things to happen that did not make too much sense at the time but now do (to some degree). He always manages to keep us on our toes with things that matter the most to us so that we trust Him every step of the way.

I'm at work about to start my exam supervision. Til next time...

I'm feeling down. I both know and don't know why.

I just spent the last 5 hours prepping for the next two weeks. It was a very productive 5 hours, and it wasn't. It was because I was doing something related to my job which in turn provides an income which in turn helps pay for our basic necessities. And it wasn't because my spirit wasn't being fed; and it needs to be.

Which begs the question: Why am I blogging right now?

I don't know.

"Christ's love compels me..."

The church preaches the life-changing, sin-forgiving, all-powerful love of Christ that a person can experience in his or her life. We preach the gospel and we pray relentlessly for our unbelieving family and friends. And rightly so because the Word of God is true and so is the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead - that same power that is now at work within us (Eph. 3). There is no other name given in heaven or on earth from which we can be saved.

But I can't help but think: we eat our very words and deface the testimony of Christ when, within our own churches among those who are followers of Jesus, there is envy, dissension, jealousy, pride, gossip, slander, hatred, discord, rage, hypocrisy, malice. No wonder those we are trying to 'witness' to don't see any witness at all.

When we do not allow the Spirit to change us and yet preach Christ's power to change, we not only show ourselves as hypocrites, but we also defame Christ - God himself - in the eyes of the very people we are trying to 'win'.

Time for a reality check.

Weekend Recap

Friday night: Youth. The topic was "If we know we have been saved from death AND sin, why do we as Christians still wrestle or struggle with sin in our lives?" The answer has more layers than you think. Romans 5-6.

Saturday: Riding at Sunshine. A great day to say the least. My body aches all over (I am totally in shape) but working on my toe carves was worth all the wipe outs! This was pretty much an all day event. In the evening I could barely keep my eyes open to watch the sad Canucks game.

Sadly, below is the only memory I have of the day =(. Dale's phone camera is pretty clear though!





Sunday: Church in the morning, vietnamese for lunch, salmon and Dale's awesome potatoes for dinner, planning and marking all evening.

I don't know why I felt compelled to write about what I did this weekend when it was pretty regular (except for the snowboarding bit), but what are blogs without posts that simply reflect the external goings-on of the day?

Back to work tomorrow!

So, I was in the ladies staff bathroom doing my thing when I reached for the door to leave and I saw this:





I couldn't stop laughing! I know there is something horribly disturbing about this animation, but you have to admit: it's (disturbingly) funny.

Tuesdays

One of my favorite weekdays because I get to hang out and study the Word with our small group (and I mean small - there's 7 of us when everyone is present). We usually have it at our place but tonight it was at Brad's (aka. my parents' basement suite) and it was movie night. We watched Slumdog Millionaire. Great movie. I enjoyed every part of it, particularly the portrayal of unconditional, unwavering, persistent-against-all-odds love.

Very similar to God's love for us.

Three more days until the weekend! Not that I'm counting down. Okay, I just did. I'm still recovering from Spring Break - but seriously, I love and am blessed to have the kind of job that I do. Not everyone gets to spend their days with 30 other people doing fun stuff (English and Social Studies is FUN) that I come up with and getting paid for it!

Hello? Can anyone hear me?

Does ANYONE still blog out there? I miss you!