Dietrich Bonhoeffer is this huge big deal theologian who I’ve heard a bunch of people recommend. I read his book “Life Together; The Classic Exploration of Christian Community” so that I could learn more about…Christian community, or any kind of community. Trying to work out people can live together at all, really. Personally, I’m much more …
I have a hard time with the idea of God calling anyone to do anything. Sometimes, when people say that God called them to do something, I feel a desire (you could say I’m called) to push back on it. To point out that it’s okay to admit that you wanted to do something, on …
I am a profoundly future-oriented person. I obsess over it, I plan incessantly. I’ve made it through the first eighth of my two year commitment, so it’s feels very urgent that I work out what comes next. For some time, I was seriously considering going to seminary after TFA. That, or continuing to teach and getting …
At church today, the liturgy was Exodus 32:1-14, about the Israelites and the golden calf. Here’s part of it: 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord.” 6 So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings …
I’m sitting in worship today and I’m thinking of how different church feels in Mississippi than it does at home. Here, it seems like young people who don’t have kids go to church pretty regularly, and that really isn’t a thing at home – it seems like it’s pretty rare, where I’m from, for people in their …
I feel so guilty, sometimes, about not being good at teaching yet. It feels like I’m working on it, and getting better, but I’m really not good at it right now. I moved to first grade this week, and it’s been better than second grade was. Part of it, of course, is the size of …
The Photobooth pictures above show me, freshman year of college, working on a project for design school, and a drawing I did for class. Tonight, as I snapped another Photobooth picture of myself, my mind went straight to those. In my freshman year of college, I had no idea I would end up here, in …
On Thursday, I went to get fingerprinted and had my background check, and on Friday I got my contract! This weekend, I also got internet connected in my home and I got a couch! It’s made my home feel much more comfortable, and my life outside of school a bit less stressful. This past week, I …
My first week of teaching went really badly. Monday, I felt like I was just running around getting everything ready. School didn’t start until Tuesday, but I had to get my classroom set up in some way that looked presentable, and I had a mountain of curriculum in my room, which I was trying to …
Today was the first day of school. It was a hectic – new students were coming into my class throughout the day and that made it tough to make sure everyone was on the same level in understanding of rules and procedures. When a new student comes in mid-morning, it’s challenging to get them to …