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for now: recent posts

  • home, for now

    I made my way back to Ecuador this past Friday, and it feels like I arrived home. My home. This city in the mountains, my little apartment tucked away on a hill, my sister’s in-laws who make me feel like family, my classroom at school–these are all bits and pieces of the home I’ve come…

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  • glimpses here

            

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  • fail forward

    It’s finished. I finished my first year of teaching. And while I shy away from considering it a victory, I raise my hands to God to acknowledge His success, His story, His plan. There were so many moments of doubt and uncertainty. Some days I cried in my sister’s office; other days I cried in…

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  • the necessity

    Sometimes I hate the necessity of what hurts us. I dislike the fact that I care too deeply or that I’m moved too easily by what others consider the little things. Last night I talked to a student of mine and she said she gets over things quickly because she knows it’s just  a mind…

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  • forward to foolishness

    I am going to go to sleep in a few minutes thinking about all the ways I could’ve done it differently. I’ll think of the student I should have spent one more minute acknowledging; of the teacher who made me laugh from the pit of my stomach until I felt foolish and quieted down; of…

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currently

It doesn’t come naturally, choosing this over all the other demands the day is making. It doesn’t come naturally, training my pipsqueaks to give a little space, so I can “do my Bible.” It doesn’t come naturally, waking up early and following through.