Transitioning From Nursing Practice to a Teaching Role

Something that I perused today. I guess I could call it "The story of my life" :

Transitioning From Nursing Practice to a Teaching Role

Snow day with Chay

One of my son likes it hot, one likes it cold. Today there is no work for me and a fun-filled homeschooling day for Chay! We practiced writing and spelling his first and last name. He also work on his reading today and we had lots of fun doing it. He is a very tactile learner so we practiced writing his name in the snow. He is also a big cuddler so afterwards we had hot cocoa with marshmallows and enjoyed our special time together.
I am trying to enjoy my last few months before he heads off to kindergarten. It's something to be happy and a little sad at the same time. I love my boy!

Tongue bridling

Youversion note: http://bible.us/n/GLd6

Tongue bridling James 1: 19-27

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The Word of God is a glass, a mirror. We can see our sin and we can see God's perfect image. It is the person who looks in the mirror and forgets how to adjust their image that the Lord says is deceived. We do it to ourselves when we don't meditate in the mirror. Some "seem to be righteous" but when they open their mouths, you know they are defiled.

There is so much power in the use of our tongues: life, death, our Christian witness. Becoming slow to speak is a sign of maturity. Is what I have to say fruitful or even necessary? Do I speak so as to selfishly give my own opinion or to glorify God? May the Lord give us wisdom in the use or witholding the use of our tongues today.

New Year

I thank God for all the trials of 2011 that have led me to a greater faith and trust in God for 2012. I have some hard and sad memories, but I am trusting God for my present and my future. My life is in His hands!

Thank you Lord for a chance to have known my father-in-law, for ministry opportunities, for my family, stable finances, a great Christmas and a new job!