the school year is finally coming to an end and i am frantically trying to get 4 years of stuff packed up to move out of my classroom at homewood high school forever. wow. even writing that gave me a little twinge of sadness. i am truly very excited about my new move to mountain brook, but there are so many that i will miss at homewood. regardless it is off to a new chapter in my life i go.
while for some change is something to fear, to avoid. for me i see it as an exciting opportunity to meet new people and experience new things that will hopefully change me forever...in a positive way of course. i hope that i can also do something to make an impact as well. this change in my life will not only provide a change in location, but also provides me with an amazing opportunity to change my attitude as well. this year in particular something shut off inside me and i haven't been the person that i normally am. with God's grace i pray that i can shake off the funk i have been in come out of the ashes changed, and with a better attitude towards life and the purpose that God has for me. i pray that i will give more than i take, that i will love more than i am loved, that i will move more than i am idle and that i show grace more than i am given grace by others.
i am looking forward to the new challenges and experiences that lay before me. thank God for rear view mirrors though. it allows us to remember where we've been and consoles us with the fact that, many times, those objects of our affections are closer than they appear.
peace and love.
