Hello and welcome to my blog.  I hope that you’ll take the time to browse the posts and leave some feedback for me.

When I began posting here, my main goal was to teach others.  Over time, God has taken me -and subsequently this blog- in many different directions.  I’m attempting to redesign everything here to reflect those directions and shake things up a bit.

At the time that God led me to open this blog, I was a full-time wife and mother who had plenty of time to fill page after page with reflections of my heart, news, gripes, etc.  Since that time, my life has changed significantly.  I am in the process of writing two books.  Yes, I said two.  One of which is non-fiction and, in large part is written here.  The book itself is titled STAND.  The other is a work of fiction that is going much more smoothly.  It’s quite the undertaking considering that I’ve never published anything more than short stories and poetry.

As I said, I was a full-time homemaker at that time.  In May of 2008, some friends and I opened a Christian message board, arcade and chat room (you can find the link here).  I spent a great deal of time there “working on it”.  As if that weren’t enough change, I began writing the fiction book and then God did something that totally threw me and my life for a loop.  He tends to do that just when we think we’ve finally got “it”.  I got a telephone call offering me a job that I hadn’t applied for and didn’t even know about.  I began working as a teacher at Busy Bee Preschool.  What I thought would be a simple job has turned out to be quite a challenge for me.  I teach seven two and three year old children who have enriched my life in so many ways.   I loved to do what I called “teach” and once I realized that I had no clue what real teaching was, I have come to love and appreciate it even more.  Speaking from my short experience, I can say with conviction that teachers are not paid or appreciated enough.  I teach a mere 20 hours a week, but I prepare at least an additional 15 hours.

My preschoolers have shown me just how little I knew about teaching and just how rewarding it is when I see that my efforts are not in vain.  Isn’t that much the way that God must feel about us, His children?  I have come to the new appreciation of Him as my Teacher.

If you’ve never been here before, thank you for visiting and I pray that you’ll come back as new posts and things are added.  If you’ve been here before, thanks for being loyal (especially when I didn’t post anything new for weeks at a time).  Feel free to leave feedback, criticism and hopefully some appreciation for what you find here.  You will find links to the contents of this blog to your left (unless I have done some serious damage in remodeling).

May God bless your time here.

Cindy

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