Sunday, September 13, 2009

I want to praise God for...

  • A great first week of teaching!
  • Lesson planning ideas
  • Wisdom with my schedule this semester
  • Furniture provided by my school
  • Coffee from East Timor (one of our teachers went on a mission trip over the vacation and made sure to bring back some coffee for me)
  • Opportunities to share with students and teachers about my wonderful time at home
  • Blessing our City Hall Small Group in exciting ways... and answering several prayer requests!
  • The beautiful park near my home!
  • Motivation to exercise four times this past week (at the beautiful park).
  • Creative ideas in the midst of teaching low-level third graders who sometimes make me wonder if they are alive and have a pulse.
  • Blessing me with great co-teachers (a couple of new ones this semester).
  • Time to finish decorating my apartment - I just love turning it into a home!
  • Beth Moore's book Breaking Free
  • Lots of intentionally built-in margin!
  • Sara's eagerness to rejoice with me over having two of my college loans paid off (one big one left to go!). She treated me to a wonderful evening of celebration on Friday night - dinner, Starbucks, a lovely walk, and a movie (with popcorn)!
  • My Saturday morning Korean class at OEM - which I am loving more and more each week!
  • Sweet and refreshing times with the Lord this week
  • Confirmation that this is where I'm supposed to be right now
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. - Isaiah 61:3b

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wanted to ask this when you told me... what movie did you go see??

And I still wanna hear about Isaiah and your thoughts that you shared in your card. we'll have to talk again soon, friend. ~Kate

ash said...

Good to hear that everything is going well :) Hope you're wonderful!