OMG.... For me ????? !!!! Teacher of Excellence "Tapping" event....

Thanksgiving ramblings....

In recent years, I have never really known what to expect from Thanksgiving Day... This year was a good one.. Took a long drive by myself...The weather was perfect, traffic was not bad at all. Then spent time reading a book and drinking hot chocolate. Made several decisions about my life...
I will start on my second Master's degree in January... It will be a Master's in American History... I am working on updating my Academic Vita (vita...Latin for "path of one's life" In the non-academic world, it is called a resume) I am planning on hitting the internet superhighway of teaching jobs in Florida about February. I think it is time that I moved onto some new adventure... so... I am gonna try my best to get as close to the kids in Orlando as I can. I would love to teach History on the community college level...(Hence the second Master's in American History.) I think I have done about all the damage to the Tift County School System I can... Teacher of the Year, Teacher of the Year for Wal-Mart and Teacher of Excellence...That last one I had always hoped for but never dreamed I would be "tapped" for it...
Thanks and apologies both go to my family for their support/my comments recently....
One thing I have found great satisfaction in recently is typing for Brother Barrieneau at church so he can feel a part of Sacrament meeting... Helps me to focus more and feel more of the Spirit when I do this..

Grateful for the good days

Just wanted to let everyone who is concerned that I had a good weekend... If I had a bunch of extra money, I would have had a great weekend... :-)

The law of opposition in all things...

We are told in the scriptures that in order to appreciate the good in life, we must experience the bad...in order to be truly happy, we need to know what it feels like to be truly sad.. and there is a time and a purpose to everything under the heavens...
After several weeks of occasional prayer and recent days spent in almost constant prayer, I have finally began to see the small pin prick of light at the end of this tunnel of depression I have been in. There are several colleagues at work who have felt immense sorrow with the nature of our jobs this year at school. Because we put so much of ourselves into our calling as teachers, it has the potential of draining us of energy to deal with the "under belly of the beast" of teaching... When I am given little to no free agency to chose what is best for my individual students, to use the talents the Lord has given me to enhance my lessons for my students, I have discovered that there is a grieving process that has to be endured before the acceptance phase can take place.. I think that is truly what I have been going through recently... However, the upside of this trial is that it has caused me to look harshly at myself and to see if I need to make a change in my job, my life or just what... I am now at the stage of listening carefully to the guidance that the Lord is trying to give me as to what direction I need to go now... I'll keep ya posted as I learn the answers to this.