Color Junction

If you get a chance...hop on to your igoogle account and add "Color Junction" to your front page. I promise, you won't be let down! This is how I spent my 15 mins breaks at work every day. And today...I finally won!!!! I even took a screen shot of my victory and sent it off to the co-worker who get me addicted. Thanks Paul!

Mediative Monday....Prayer

Prayer has been on my mind a lot lately. Prayer is something I've been doing a lot of while I continue to delibrate on this call.

On Sunday, I was talking with my group of 5th and 6th grade Sunday Schoolers about prayer. We were talking about the different ways God answers our prayers. "No", "Yes", "Not Now." "Not Now" is the one that always amazes me. Going back to this call stuff...just last fall I found myself constantly praying for a call...and now I can look back and know...His answer was not right now.

Isn't it comforting to look back and see how many times God does answer our prayers with..."not right now." I'm glad that He knows what I need when, because obviously...I don't!!

Call Info

Thought I would share some additional information on this call to Middleton.

The call is to teach in their one-room school. There will be 2 children next year. A 5th grade boy and an 8th grade girl. Even though it is a small small school, this is not a one year call. This to me speaks volumes about this congregation. They are committed to this school and what a blessing that they recognize the importance of the "one thing needful." They use the Abeka curriculum....which I am more than okay with because it's what I grew up with and I am more than comfortable with teaching from it...but I also know the downside of the curriculum and am aware of where I need to add or subtract.

Other than that, I don't know what else to share. Still actively praying and processing. All prayers you can send up in my behalf...greatly appreciated.

Unexpected Calls...

Exactly one week ago, I received a very unexpected call. On a Sunday afternoon, as I was crawled up on my bed taking my Sunday nap, the phone rang. I rolled over, managed to open one eye, to see it was a number I didn't know. Since I was sleeping, I silenced it hoping they'd just leave a message, which he did. Because I'm not a fan of suspense, I figured I'd listen to the message, go back to sleep, and just deal with it later. Password entered, option 1 entered for new message....Pastor Bernthal's voice....END pressed. I didn't even finish the message, but I sat up real fast and knew without a doubt, he was calling me about a divine call.

Not sure what kind of emotions were all running through me at that point, but I knew I had to call him back right away...and I also knew I had been sleeping for the last hour and probably sounded like it. So...I did what every normal person would do :-) I talked to myself...okay so it was more like convincing myself to call him back right away and at the same time getting my voice back to normal.

I did it. I called him. And I was right. At their voter's meeting that afternoon, they had been led to extend a call to me to serve as teacher in their grade school.

The rest of the night was filled with calling all of my family....after 23 years in the CLC, you know how fast that information spreads and this was something I wanted them to hear from me, not through the grapevine. It was a night full of emotions, talking to all my family, and trying to really process this news.

And now...here I am...one week later, still processing and most importantly praying.

My dear mom has called me at least once every day to talk about furniture and decor. It was overwhelming at first, now I know it's just her way of showing me how excited she is for me.

But mostly, I just sit here and think about how unexpected this all has been. One week ago, I was talking about where I was going to live next year. Now I am thinking about Middleton and the possibilities there.

Unexpected usually scares me, but right now...I'm enjoying unexpected...