When we care enough to see past our assumptions, and our minds grow too large to house the dangerous misconceptions about others, we will naturally want to form that safe space for our kids.
Category Archives: teaching
Minding My Mind
Let’s have a mission to embrace our strengths and help others to see their own when they’ve been beat down. Some people think our future is nothing to look forward to, but when I see life through my children’s eyes, I can’t wait to see what comes next!
The Heart of a Teacher
Listening to Rod Stuart’s Forever Young today on the radio gave me all the feels. It’s an old song, but it’s lyrics and the season of graduation, remind me of how I feel for all of the young people who have laughed, sat, cried, sang, and enjoyed the classroom experience with me at some point these […]
Clinging to God in the Transitions
Transitions are awkward times as there seem to be arrows pointing down any and every direction while the mind continuously wonders if going back would be the best path, even while knowing it isn’t possible. There’s an amount of fear going into the unknown. I am blessed to have my faith to lean on and do not know how others would do it any other way.
Helping Moms Helps Babies
What’s faith without action? Why be pro-life if you think only politicians can fight abortion? Why care about an unborn baby if the only thing you can tell its scared, pregnant mom is to keep her legs closed and take responsibility for herself? If we don’t care about the moms, how can we truly say […]
Mr. Ratburn is Welcome in My Home: So Are You
Today, I saw that Arthur’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is gay! In fact, he’s marrying a another male-whatever-he-is. Should I boycott and block all PBS shows? You know I love Jesus and I want to be a good Christian! Seems like when Jesus people can’t fathom someone or something in our country, we must immediately purge […]
Losing Those We Love
Today marks three days of a dark cloud of grief sitting on me. It’s not something to be shaken off, it can only be felt to it’s entirety until the light takes over again. I know the light will take over again. I have faith that God is walking this road with me. He knows […]
We Have To Say Something
Two summers ago, after a racist comment was made by our president, a pastor declared that we as Christians should always denounce racism, stand up and fight against it, and seek unity. I sat in a pew closer to the back, but that message was for me. It was for all of us sitting in […]
When You Can’t Go Back Home
It hurt to leave, I’ll admit, I cried. I couldn’t look back, because if I did, the adrenaline pushing me forward would have dissipated, and my family was counting on me. But now the home that we bought as a family of three and grew to a family of seven…a home in which three of […]
When Politics Become Religion
I grew up believing that Christians were Republicans and non-Christians were Democrat and only Heathens didn’t vote. No one told me this, I just figured it out by my environment. And needless to say, we were Republicans! One of my earliest memories is of a night my parents came home from a Bush/Quayle fundraiser and […]
