In late summer, when we realized that we would not be returning to Haiti and that Melissa and I would have to start looking for other work, the one possibility I ruled out for myself was teaching in a public school.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I loved teaching at Cap-Haitien Christian School – I had wonderful, unique students (including my own kids), super small classes, and the opportunity to speak the gospel on a daily basis. There was no way I was ever going to return to large classes in a public school, haunted by standardized testing and paperwork and unable to speak the name of Jesus openly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And now here I am, two weeks down and 16 to go until summer, and I am actually fearing those 16 weeks will be too short! I am loving these new-to-me students – a group of 8th graders who are a fascinating mix of vitality and apathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I don’t know what God’s long range plan is for me. Maybe I will be at Hauser this time next year and the year after that. Or maybe I won’t. But this morning I was reading in John 21 the post-resurrection story of Jesus eating breakfast with the disciples on the shore of the lake. His interaction with Peter caught my attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The fact that Peter was being restored after his threefold denial of Jesus momentarily faded into the background and the main thing I saw was simply Jesus asking Peter (and asking me), “Do you love me?”<\/p>\n\n\n
If yes, then “Feed my lambs.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Simple.<\/p>\n\n\n
And far beyond just having a paycheck, I found myself so incredibly grateful for Jesus entrusting me with his lambs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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