Great sense of humor

God's funny...
yep!
He has a great sense of humor.
I've been reflecting some more and I think it's hilariously funny that several months ago I took this job I'm in as an aide in the school district my PA grandchildren are in.  I thought it would give me more of a chance to be around them and see them as they bud into adults.  That is happening but something else has happened to me.
If you would have told me 2 years ago I'd be working in a high school with teen agers I probably would have slapped you.  When I got done raising my kids I said "that's it, I've had enough and don't want anymore".  I started out in a very nonthreatening environment doing recess and lunch duty for the second graders...all 60 of them. Can anyone say"frazzled". I thought it might end up being a permanent position but then was called to sub for the high school for 3 weeks in a class called "Academic Skills".  That's where kids who are having difficulty with some of their subjects get some one-on-one help and are able to catch up.  Now, if you have known me, I don't exactly remind you of the academic kind of person...maybe a little crazy and creative and artsy-fartsy but not your history, math, physics kind of person.

  So, after 3 weeks there I was asked to stay until the end of the year.  I told myself it would be better at the high school because I got a few more hours and that gave me a little more income.  Purely economic! HA!
  Then, I gave the last 3 months of school to this class and began to realize that I was getting a refresher course on all subjects because in any given day we will help students with homework, quiz es, reading assignments, essays...the whole gammit.  I'm learning terms that I never knew existed like rubrics, and graphic organizers and wiki spaces.  My computer skills are improving and I am definitely getting a crash course on American Government, Western Civilization, World History, Biology and Geometry.  What these teachers have studied and received their degrees in for knowing it backwards and forwards I am getting the "cliff notes" every day.  And the joke is on me because I was one of those students in high school who said,"Why are we learning this stuff, we'll never use it?"  Um, never say never!  I am having to face my math phobia and take it in bits and pieces...something I have avoided all my life. Rats!(Or I should say,"Help me Jesus!"

Anyway, I think it's interesting that we are on this journey.  Finding that the things we have done in the past really do make a difference.  It is a wild ride and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

Now that day 3 of the unemployment gig is on us we are still feeling okay and excited.  This week end we are volunteering as bartenders at the Lancaster Symphony. Sound strange?  Well stranger things have happened.  We thought we needed to put ourselves out there. Hopefully we will make some contacts...it'll for sure be interesting!

Reflections

 

 We got up this morning feeling a sense of hope, even in the midst of this storm.  We don't know what is in the future but God has always been faithful.  We can feel the prayers of the saints.  It's good to know they have our backs.We've been through many tough times before and look back on the ways God provided. 

 I don't believe this is the end.  I believe there is more to the story...this is just another chapter. 

 Tomorrow will bring new challenges but God's mercy promises to be new every morning.

Aeschylus said," He who learns must suffer.  And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair,against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

And on a lighter note:  and old Japanese proverb says, "Even monkeys fall out of trees.

Sundays have always been a time of reflection for me...being raised to believe that you need a day of rest, a day you don't do anything ordinary and a day to sort of look at life and ponder the things that are going on in it.