Jesus is a' callin'

I have REALLY been having a tug on my heart about teaching Sunday school. For those of you that don't know, I teach 3-4 yr. olds on Sunday and I have really been getting burnt out and bored with it. It is hard for me because most Sundays, I am just annoyed with the fact that I have to be there when really I should be joyful in teaching the Word of God. How can the children be excited to learn about it when I am not?! I have really been praying about this and I realized that the preschool age is not the way for me and I am really interested in teaching middle school. Preschool Sunday school is easy peezy lemon squezzy and does not challenge me AT ALL. I can't have deep, meaningful conversations, I don't feel as needed by the younger kids, and the stories are just to easy!! I mean how hard is it to teach about God's love through the story of Noah OR about how flippin' AWESOME Jesus is through all the stories of His mircales?
The Lord has reminded me repeatedly how much the middle schoolers REALLY need a positive role model. I have also been reminded about how much middle school just sucked- I mean so many things are changing, peer pressure, gossip, I mean total nightmare! When all this stuff starts coming into play, I feel that it is the most important time for kids to be reminded of God's grace and that no matter how "gross" their hearts are, He loves us. These kids need someone that they can relate to and someone that can be honest and vulnerable with them about how "disgusting" my own heart is and the challenges I face as an adult. I am ready to be challenged by these kids, to learn from them, and to just constantly remind them of how much we are loved by the Lord. Thinking about teaching next year gets me so excited to have some awesome convos about J.E.S.U.S.!!!!!

David Williamson MUST pray every Tuesday

Holy cannoli! What an amazing two weeks this has been! I found out I was accepted into the Mental Health Counseling program at ODU! I was really excited about this until I thought about how the hell I was going to pay for it?! Here is the deal: I have been waiting to hear if I have received an assitantship to help me pay for grad school, but the problem was that I had to accept my invitation to the program within TWO weeks of receiving my letter. ACK! This decision weighed heavily on my mind for a whole week: Do I just accept it and if I don't get an assistantship, just don't go? Do I go and take out 3967483769846984736ion dollars in loans? OR Do I just defer my acceptance into spring, in hopes that maybe my, what seemed so FAR away, dream would come true? Well, thanks to you, David Williamson, my prayers for getting into ODU have been answered. But let's take this even further by saying, THANK YOU David, God must have heard you, yes only you, and answered my money situation! The program can be done part-time, which means I can continue to work and go to school at the same time!! Whoop whoop!

On a more serious note, I have, myself, been praying about this issue for a long time. It was really weighing on me and thinking about this was so exhausting! Tuesday night I feel asleep praying to God that I would somehow work this out and that I would be content with any decision made. You know, my prayers were answered, maybe not the way I really expected them to be answered but they were answered....

So David, please please please, pray every Tuesday: ONLY your prayers will do!