Harrison Family

When Your Dream Seems Impossible  What is one of your biggest dreams?  Now, think about that dream.  Is it not so hard to wait for it to happen?  This has been my struggle for many years. The still small voice of God's spirit in me says, "Wait, wait, not yet, wait, be patient"  I often argue with that still small voice, way more powerful than me.  "But Lord, why?  There is this internal dialogue that goes on in my mind, back and forth and man is that exhausting.  Can anybody relate with this? One of my dreams, has been to have a nice big house for our family.  It isn't really about the house, but making it a "home", a "refuge of safety", a place where my kids are free to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, to be loved, cherished and treasured. Financially it has taken us 13 years for this dream to come true..  How long did you have to wait for this dream of yours to come true? In the first couple of years of Will and I's marriage,

Judah running with anticipation                                                   God's beautiful creation

It has been a busy week...I was super excited Will got to come with me to ELS and talk with International Students.  There is a guy named Peter from Taiwan and he loves Ian and Ian loves him.  Ian has the biggest smile on his face and always says his name.  It's adorable to see.    I also went to the CMC at Miller Library at cornerstone.  I felt like a teacher in heaven to see all the creative things I can do in my house to teach Ian and prepare for a future teaching job.  I laminated some calendars, my new abc posters, center posters and borders that I got from the dollar tree.    I am looking forward to reading The Year Like Jesus by Ed Dobson.  I am also starting to study the similarities and differences in teaching children and adults.  I don't really have much experience teaching adults, so I am a little worried they may think something I do is too childish.  I organized the desks and cleaned them all in my new room for teaching.  I am going to make a display with certai

I am overwhelmed by God's unceasing power in my life.  I no longer have an ineffective teaching evaluation, but it was changed to an effective teaching evaluation.  It has gave me a shot of hope that is running rampant through my veins to be the best teacher I can be. I am excited that I can finally teach again.  God has taken away the cloud of doom from my lack of experience that pours down over me when I job search.

This post was written a LONG time ago, 5/23/2015 I am posting it today to remember how God was working in my life. How easy it is for me to let minute by minute slip away.  Laying on my bed, overcome with pure exhaustion, only to wake up to yet another day, where I do the same thing over again. Life gets busy and overwhelming and I lose sight of the incredible blessing to married to a man who truly loves me and beautiful children that are and should be a joy. I lose sight of who God has made me to be, and I forget that I have a purpose on this earth, more than to just experience time, day after day.  I forget to be in the moment as my mind reels into overtime, thinking about tomorrow before today has even ended, and there it goes again. Tick, Tick, Tick, another minute just went by,  a minute, that I could have been more selfless, trusted God more, connected with my husband or children more. I hit my pillow from pure exhaustion and can hardly move, I question how much energy I

I have been reading the book of Ezekiel. Because I have never read it before.Let me tell that is on  interesting book of the Bible. A little eccentric and shocking but shows me a lot about how God disciplines sin and longs to care for us.  I have been doing a women' s Bible study on Exodus at my church. It is so cool to see words used in Exodus repeated in Ezekiel. I can' t tell you how many times I have read "And they will know that I am Yahweh. God longs for everyone to know Him.  I love in Ezekiel 16 how God says to Israel an adulterous nation.. "And as for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not thoroughly washed clean with water, and you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt, and you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth. No eye took pity on you to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown into the open field in their despising of you on the day you were born.  “ ‘And I