The past two weeks have been especially busy. Nothing out of the normal, though, I guess! It seems every spare moment has been filled with something...(even if that "something" is playing volleyball with high school friends, or hanging out with the team...:D) My list of "Things I Need to Do Today" is about three weeks behind. Right now, my "Stuff to Prepare Before Facing that Third Grade Again" list has taken a higher priority.
A lot of us have been sick recently. Please pray that God would give us His strength. Last week I missed a few days of school because of sickness. One day, I was feeling sick and decided to go to school anyway (because, of course, all the students were sick too. The Kinmenese like to go to school regardless of sickness). I decided that if the Kinmenese can go to school when they are sick, so can I. So....I went....and now I can proudly say that I am truly a 金門人!!! (smiles all around)
It has been a challenge and a blessing to be learning lessons in teaching this semester. Often, it is so hard to go from class to class and remember what I am to be teaching. Already twice this week, I have walked into class with the wrong book... No, I'm not that stupid, it's just difficult when you go to a different school everyday and only see one class for forty minutes per week.
Learning what my place is in "classroom management" has been a difficult lesson as well...... Hmmm.....maybe, that's all I'll say about that....
Today, after teaching my classes in the morning, I sat in the school van thinking about this verse: (Psalm 83:18)
"That men may know that Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth." This is truly our purpose as Christians living in this world. To be the salt and light that proves, to this world, that God really is God.
Please pray for us as we continue our daily and weekly routines of teaching.
Pray that God would "be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us. That [His] way may be know upon the earth..." (Psalm 67:1)
A 真正的金門人!
Lucas
