I have, for all intensive purposes, gone into this school year planning on it being my last.
Don't get me wrong... I love the students, love the school, like most of the people and find the city livable... but I am ready for something new. I have become stagnant in many ways.
In trying to bring Christ to my students I have flat-lined. They know me well enough and have heard enough of my talks that there is little I can say to impress them anymore. It is almost to the point that I feel like I need to leave for their betterment with the hope that new blood will help spur the fire that I hopefully kept kindled from those that were here before me.
I have my own desires of what I would like to do after this school year. Still, I am not set on them and being open to anything I believe is the best way to go into my future.
With my consecration to Jesus through Mary a few short days away, I am hopeful that Mary may give me some guidance on how I can start to become the best friend and follower of her son.
And wouldn't you know it, I found a theme song for my upcoming big day of consecration.
Sometimes it is right to move on, to another phase in our life. But like I've always counseled others, before you set on the road, have a destination in mind.
ReplyDeleteMyself, I find that the big changes in my life were laid before me, as opportunities presented by God. Of late, I avail myself of them more, rather than seeing what "I might like more."