The School Year: Week One

It's been a while since I have had the time to blog, so I guess it's only fitting to do a little catching up with all one of you. I have been busy really busy, so busy in fact that I have not had time to do things that I normally would have had done; like reading all my assignments for class. I have been so busy during the day that I have been coming home and going to bed early, yes early or at least the attempt to go to bed early is being made. After working 12 hour days at school and then going to school myself I have been exhausted. However, on Thursday and Friday things have begun to level off to a more sane level of a work environment. Instead, of 40 or 50 students in the counseling office it's now on average 5-10, scheduling for most students has ended at it has brought back some normalcy to the office. And well the most important thing to say is that I SURVIVED. We should really have t-shirts for this week "I survived High School scheduling 2008". Needless to say in week one we had a Tornado Warning, you remember the days head against the floor in the hallway, a fire drill, a medical emergency in the counseling office and schedules glitches galore. However, through all the madness of the first week of school...I like to think of how faithful God has been throughout this point. I still want to glorify him in the things that I do the things that I say and the things that I share with students. I want to make connections with students that are abounding in all ways and that everyone can see inside and out. I want to be real, sharing through life experience and through just the reality of what is to be a high school student. When I tell a student you need to be here, no tardies no absences I want it to mean something more, I want there to be a sincerity and a heart for the things that I tell the students. Every tear that is shed in my office I want it to be covered with God's grace, mercy and faithfulness, even when the students don't know that or see that. I want this week to be able to pray my office out, every square inch of it to be promised to the things that God has planned for that office. I want every hour, every moment to be something that is going to glorify God and his presence in the school system, where he is often times pushed aside. I will be faithful in knowing that God is present in my office all the time whether known or not and that the direction I give, can be direction given through the Spirit of God daily.

I am excited and yearn to do God's work, whether known or not known by students or faculty. I have just taken on the responsibility to care for 270 some students in all areas of there lives, guiding them into and out of all differing situations and I am ecstatic that God, the creator of the universe chose me for this job.