Whew!

It's almost over for the year....school. I am relieved, yet a little sad. The three preschool classes I had this year won't be together again past next Tuesday! It's been a neat year, no matter how hard it has been to grow these little ones from total dependence on the teacher--to independence and readiness for school. Just seeing Carson change and grow has been amazing, but that stands for all of them. All 35 have changed in ways I couldn't have imagined at the beginning of the year, or in some cases even a month or two ago. Now I am "harvesting my crop" of preschoolers and sending them off for kindergarten or summer vacation. I get so frustrated for having such high standards and always wanting to give up if I have a difficult situation or behavior. I forget that I am to be like Jesus. Does He give up on us, or did he look for another job when people turned Him away from their town, or if He encountered a difficult person? I'm really trying to turn over a new leaf, and live for the moment. Not a year from now, or two years from now, but just for now. As these last few days of preschool happen, I plan to enjoy the kids I've been entrusted with, minister to their families, and not worry about tomorrow. The bible says it explicitly in Matthew 6:25-34 (New International Version)

Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

I've actually probably cut a lot of hours off of my life by worrying, especially lately. When the time comes, God will direct me to the next step I am to take, and the students I am to teach, or whether to make a change from preschool to reading. For now, I am "planted" in preschool, and I plan to grow where I'm planted.