Golly. It's already Saturday and I had really meant to blog again this week but it slipped by!
First I want to say in regards to my last post on Bonhoeffer. I really do believe what I wrote but wanted to clarify that I don't feel this way because I don't think Mark and I are doing things right or because I feel like God is saying "do more!". He isn't. But I had this picture in my head of me seeing where Jesus was going, then putting my head down and following after Him. After a while He turns right but I keep heading straight because I know that's where He was going and because my head is still down - focused on what I'm doing - I miss that He turned. I think daily I needed to be lifting up my head so I can see when Jesus turns. Does this make sense? I want to evaluate where I'm headed and not get caught up in what I think I'm supposed to be doing. Right now I'm focused on raising my kids and homeschooling them. I am also a greeter at church on Sunday mornings and I'm leading the women's breakfasts every other month (I will be the speaker for most of the events). All of these things are wonderful. Things I believe God is asking me to do at this season of my life. But I read something in My Utmost for His Highest devotional this week that said 'If you are relying on anything else other than God then you won't know when He's gone." Gulp. I don't ever want to be relying on what He has told me in the past to determine where I'm going in the future. I hope this makes sense....
Anyway, thanks to my friend Kim and her awesome kids (who looked after my kids), my friend Jo and I got to go help serve at the soup kitchen this week. Unfortunately they are remodeling so we didn't get to actually serve food and we spent our time cleaning up after much of the remodel. It was fine though. I was thankful for the chance to go and hope to do so again in the future.
On Thursday we had a field trip to the Animas City Museum. It's an old schoolhouse that they've restored. Very neat place. I could've spent a couple hours there reading everything but as usual the kids raced through stuff. I think they really enjoyed it but for them it was only a 45 minute tour rather than the full one.
Here are a few pictures from our trip. I've given up on having high quality pictures on here (although I'm pretty sure I gave up on that a long time ago....). I just never have Mark's camera with me so I use my phone. I'm hoping that when I get my new phone in the next month or so it'll have a much better camera. Till then it's what I got.
Here's the school building. Beautiful stone isn't it?
The classroom.
This woman walked us through a typical day. It was really neat to sit there and be a part of it. At one point she shared how the school teachers would take turns staying with children and their families and help with chores and eat with them and she said, can you imagine living with your teacher?! We got a good laugh at that because yes, they can in fact imagine living with their teacher :)
My youngest pupil and our friend Hayley.
My other students.
Kale was pretty funny at one point. The teacher came over and wanted to demonstrate punishment. So she told the story of how a boy might take the cute girl's pigtails (who was sitting in front of him) and dip them in his ink {Kate was the cute girl with pigtails and Kale was the mischievous boy}. And how the teacher would take the boy up to the front of the class. She took Kale's hand and was wanting to use him to show what might happen. Kale was having none of that. He panicked and ran back to me. I told him she was pretending but it didn't matter. So we watched her "discipline" another boy.
We enjoyed the rest of the museum, including a small one-room cabin that they have on the property. I'm thankful for being a part of this group and having opportunities to see things we may not otherwise see.
