With my refilled cup of hot chocolate, a small heater and a classroom devoid of students, I spread open my lesson plan book and curriculum folders to prepare for upcoming February. As much as I enjoy my students, I also enjoy the quiet moments where I get to reorganize and prep for the upcoming school days.
Upon concluding the month's Arithmetic lessons, I realized that I would be needing to use the lessons that I had separated into the third and final folder. Lesson 170 was still in the front of this final curriculum folder, right where I left it at the end of last year. Lesson 170, the last lesson of the school year. My heart dropped a little, somehow wanting to delay the fact that the end of the year comes closer everyday. I know that lots of teachers look forward to sending their students forward to a new adventure in third grade and receive a fresh new group of students, but I wont be one of those teachers this year. I'll receive an exit stamp on my expiring visa and leave behind part of my heart that belongs to a people group that I have grown to love.
I know that I've got about 90 wonderful lessons ahead of me, and I'm excited to partake in them with my students. However, it's those small reminders of my due date to trust in God for a new direction that causes me to want to say, "But my Lord and Master, I do want to stay here." Lesson 170 will be a review lesson for my students, but for me it will be a learning lesson that I've committed to following God, who has drawn me into his kingdom and asks me to be faithful unto him.
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