Today I turned in my keys and closed my classroom door for the last time. I felt no remorse, no sadness or even the heavy sense of nostalgia that normally comes as I close a chapter in my life. I am a sentimentalist to my marrow and love keeping flowers given to me pressed in the pages of my Bible or notes from old friends in my desk drawers. I cling to good memories and comfortable places and have an aversion to change. Not so now! Today I tried to stop and evoke some semblance of this feeling as I hurried out the door... nothing came. I feel an excitement about the upcoming challenges of living and teaching far from the familiar and a growing sense of strength and resolve about the troubles I might face.
All I can say is this...It is not me, but Thee! Only God could be taking this shy, introverted girl from New Jersey and transplanting her to another country. Only God could be giving me this sense of peace, trust and comfort. Only God could be keeping the fears, worries and lies of the Devil at bay in my mind and spirit. I pray for continued growth in this area, continued strength in my convictions and beliefs and time to commune with God and grow in wisdom (oh, do I need to grow in wisdom!). Would you pray these things along with me?
''Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am" -Phil. 4:13
