autumn

"As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night will never cease"
~ Genesis 8:22

"for the harvest of the earth is ripe." ~Revelation 14:15d


"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." ~Ecclesiastes 3:11


"But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak." ~ Hebrews 6:8-9


"You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water" ~ Isaiah 1:30

"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." ~Ecclesiastes 1:5

exposure

Around this time last year H1N1 was a big thing. Everyone was freaking out about it. Last year I was in college, among many adults. Now I'm around little children all the time. Now I don't know the facts; don't know if more bacteria live among adults or children. But I know that after a while of being in the same environment and exposed to the same bacteria you become immune to those bacteria, and your body doesn't get sick easily.
Now that school has just started I have been exposed to many different little germs that float around the school. I'm not immune, and being tired or fatigued my body has to work harder on lower levels of energy.

Germs love week bodies! Germs attack and take over the weak and tired body. So here I am, with a box of Kleenex at my side, a water bottle that has been emptied many times today, and several tylenol-cold to help me come through this day. I hope that by having this fierce cold now, on the weekend, I won't have it for very long next week and hopefully become immune to all those germs soon, so that the exposure to the wide variety of bugs won't affect me.
For now, I'll keep sneezing and sniffling, singing songs to the pounding in my head, and being thankful for the fact that I feel like this at home. :)

t-i-r-e-d

I'm just tired..
There must be a better word for tired, and I don't know of any, but that's okay. I'm sure you all know what it is like, to be tired. Tired, because you don't sleep well at night, and are just done. Don't have the energy to do what you should probably have done or do. A jawn interrupts my train of thoughts every so often, and the urge to sleep visits me at the most random times of the day.

Maybe it's the weather; here in Lacombe it has been cloudy, cool, and very rainy during the past couple of days. And not only that, its gray and not summer anymore. I love summer, especially the energy that beams off of the sun. We haven't seen the sun in several days, and that's quite rare here.

Maybe it's starting a new job, and all the things that come hand in hand with that.

Maybe it is being busy, running around all the time.

Maybe it is just me. I do not know what it is, but along with it I haven't really blogged much at all. I'm REALLY trying to change it all, to get a routine, and a good schedule for myself. But before that time comes, who knows when that will be, I don't think you'll find me on here very often...

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint

Isaiah 40:30,31

more change

This month has just started, and already it is a month that will be full of changes. I never really know how to deal with changes. Should I be happy, should I be sad? Should I be disappointed, or excited? Should I be anxious, or enthusiastic?

None of those words really describe how I am feeling now. I'm starting a new job soon, really soon, and it not only makes me feel excited, it also makes me feel scared. Scared of the unknown, scared of meeting and running into me, and not knowing what to do with what I have to face.

Other days I do not feel scared. I feel excited. Ready for this new thing in my life. Ready for my new job, my first job, my first full time position! I feel ready to get started, to teach, to help many people, to share my 'knowledge' with little kids, to give, to love, to be there for who need it. I feel excited to be in a school, for a whole year. Not as a student, but as EA.

Other days I just think of how many things I have learned, not only when I was in college, but also during the times I spent with kids in and outside of school. How will I ever be able to remember all the theories, good strategies, and great tips that can help me.

Today I am not really sure what I am to think of it all. Usually I can kind of describe what I feel, but not today. And that's okay, I believe it will come. Believe that I can do this, not because it's me, but because Christ lives in me and gives me strength!