Today marks the second time in a decade I have resigned from Hauser Junior\/Senior High School to pursue God’s call into missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And here’s the amazing thing about this past year (or rather, an amazing thing about God): It wasn’t just a paycheck to tide me over until I found something else, rather\u00a0the Lord used this experience to teach me and to deepen my faith. My time at Hauser was in no way wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n
Like any classroom, some of what I needed to learn was review. I see now that some of the most important lessons from our painful departure from Haiti got reinforced.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
For instance, in these last two weeks of my teaching career, I was made aware of two students who had very different experiences in my classroom:<\/p>\n\n\n
Student A’s parents came gunning for me with several critical emails which built to a demand to meet with my principal about me. (Not surprising to me, the meeting with my principal was prompted by something I did only in their imaginations. They never apologized to me.)<\/p>\n\n\n
Student B brought me a gift and a sweet goodbye note. And Student B’s parent posted on Facebook about her child’s LOVE for her English teacher – a compliment I only became aware of through some mutual friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
So why did the Lord think it useful to give me a small reminder that every person in any sort of leadership role develops both supporters and enemies?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Well, I think it inspires me to be a lot bolder in life and in ministry. I don’t need to spend undue time pondering how others perceive me when I have very little control <\/i><\/b>over their opinions! (And God knows this has been a lifelong battle for me!) I just need to keep my focus on serving God’s kingdom.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Romans 12:18: “If possible, so far as it depends on you<\/b><\/i>,\u00a0live peaceably with all.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n It is useful to remember that living peaceably with others is not ALL dependent on me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today marks the second time in a decade I have resigned from Hauser Junior\/Senior High School to pursue God’s call into missions.\u00a0 And here’s the amazing thing about this past year (or rather, an amazing thing about God): It wasn’t just a paycheck to tide me over until I found something else, rather\u00a0the Lord used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}