Day 0 (Tuesday)- My day started off at 5:30 in the morning so that I can shower and get ready to leave my house by 6am latest. Driving to Redlands took me about 1 hour to get there and I didn’t hit any traffic, praise the Lord! I’m really thankful to have this job and I definitely know it was God who provided me with such an opportunity. Yesterday was my first time officially working as a teacher and I was just really excited to meet all the faculty members. During our staff meeting we played icebreakers and went into going over logistics of what will happen in the next couple of days. Good thing the meeting was real short and to the point. I love the principal a lot because she’s got timing down to the dot, which allowed us a lot of time to prepare our classrooms and get other things done. There’s still a lot of things that I need to get done since I barely started. I then found out later that day that there was gonna be an open house, so I rushed and prepared everything as fast as I could. The Lord is really good in providing me the strength to complete the tasks that I presented before me. At the open house I realized that it was more of a meet and greet with the students so I left a little early before it actually ended. I didn’t get home till 8:30-9ish. Once I got home I got myself some dinner and knocked out at 9:30pm. The drives have just been killer for me, but what can I do I have nowhere close to live long term? I trust the Lord will provide.

Day 1-This morning I woke up not as excited as I should be because of a lot of frustration that I was dealing inside from the night before. My first day didn’t actually feel like a first day. I got to school real early so I started reading the Word starting in 1 Timothy 1. Amidst all the curve balls I’ve been getting these past couple of days, as Paul reminded Timothy in verse 18 to fight the good fight I can hear God reminding me that I too need to fight the good fight within my spirit. My attitude needed a lot of change and it did as I saw my first batch of students come in. I really enjoyed getting to meet my students today because their energy restored a lot of mines. It’ll be my first time teaching middle school students this year, but I believe 7th grader are a lovely bunch of students to teach. I definitely know there will be trials that I will encounter in the near future, but where I am placed is where God wants me to be. I realized as I’m going to be teaching 7th graders God is reminding me that 7 is the number for perfection or completion. What the Lord started in me while I was back in Riverside as I was getting in to teaching He has surely completed every step up to the point of where I’m at right now. 

I was encouraged through Lamentations 3:19-25 at the end of the day…

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I will remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. 21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. 24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.” 25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him…

Thank you Lord for always being so good. Hallelujah Amen.

I leave you guys with a picture of my classroom.