It’s official:\u00a0 I’m unemployed.\u00a0 I turned in a letter of resignation this past week and the school board accepted it this past Tuesday evening.\u00a0 It hasn’t really sunk in yet for me because I still need to finish cleaning out my classroom.\u00a0 When I turn in my key, reality is bound to hit me.Plus, school hasn’t started yet.\u00a0 When it starts without me, I’m not sure exactly how I will feel.\u00a0 But I can guarantee that there will be more than a bit of sadness involved.\u00a0 I just finished five years at my school and they were, overall, good years.\u00a0 I have grown as\u00a0a teacher, I have had numerous great students, and I enjoyed my co-workers.\u00a0 I even got to have my nieces in class – and might have even had my nephew in class this year if I were sticking around.\u00a0 That crazy word “IF”!\u00a0 Melissa and I agonized over this decision and did not come to it lightly.\u00a0 We came to it with fear and trembling!\u00a0 At issue seemed to be two paths: one where I kept working and we continued funding in\u00a0a very part-time capacity, putting us in Haiti in\u00a0August of\u00a02013 at the earliest.\u00a0 The second path would see me giving up my job so I could be deliberate about the funding process in the hopes of getting us to Haiti in late December of this year.\u00a0 We would have loved for some glaring neon sign, pointing us in the “right” direction.\u00a0 And I would love to be able to say that God wrote an exact\u00a0departure date on the calendar for us.\u00a0 But it doesn’t work that way, as my sister-in-law Suzan reminded us with a mailing of a sermon transcript from her pastor.\u00a0 So after considering Scripture, praying, and seeking the counsel of several wise friends, we were left, as Suzan’s pastor puts it, to “exercise the liberty God has given us”.\u00a0 In the end, Melissa and I both came to a place where we were OK with either option – which is a good place to be.\u00a0 And we are left knowing that\u00a0we need to be humble in our planning, admitting that we don’t even know what tomorrow will bring.\u00a0 That being said, our hearts are in Haiti and a new school year will begin there in about a month – without us being in place.\u00a0 But, if it is the Lord’s will, we will make it in time for the second semester.James 4:13-15Now listen, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.\u201d 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, \u201cIf it is the Lord\u2019s will, we will live and do this or that.\u201d TNIVP.S.\u00a0 One week from tomorrow, The Princess (age 5) will start kindergarten.\u00a0 How exciting to see her enthusiasm for school!\u00a0 Each morning for the past week, her first question upon popping out of bed is “how many more days until I get to go to school?”\u00a0 I hope my impatience for getting to Haiti is of similar pure motivation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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