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Name: Amy
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 8/24/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Knowing my Savior better and telling other people about him.... hiking, swimming, reading/writing, piano, singing and my little niece
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  aimalk1
Member Since:
4/11/2005
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| Student teaching was SUPERB. I loved teaching- I felt alive while I was working with the class and like it was the work God made me for. Kind of like when you use scissors the right way for the first time, or plug a lamp into an outlet... or play piano the way it was meant to be played... they feel good because they are being used for what they were meant to do. And, when I teach I feel that God made me for it. So- yes! I'll be happy to do it the rest of my life.
In other news- I have a nephew to be born in just a few weeks. :0) yeah!!!
My brother, Ben, just got engaged for those of you who know him. :0)
I took my praxis II yesterday. That's over with.
I'm teaching 4 year olds for the summer full time and I am really excited about it once again, although it took me longer to get that way this year than other years. Camp starts tomorrow and I am ready to give them a great experience hopefully!
I still have to do student teaching in the fall before I graduate in december. That seems like an enormously long amount of time to me to get through when I would rather be starting a job now, but the Lord knows that and I'm sure he will keep me steady through that.
Engagement........not yeeeeeet.....
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oh yes. And how are all of YOU? Since most people are remaining quite silent lately with the busyness of graduation and such... ? | | |
| ...to the last week of classes. EVER. | | |
| There is a stillness in the Christian's life:
The grain of wheat must fall into the ground
And die; then, if it die, out of that death
Life, fullest life, will blessedly abound.
It is a mystery no words can tell,
But known to those who in this stillness rest;
Something divinely incomprehensible:
That for my nothingness, I get God's best!
I think that when Christian's talk about "dying to self" we only apply it to giving up our desire, wants etc. We don't realize that there is a much more basic meaning: dying period. Dying so that we, as lifeless creatures, have no ability anymore. And then living only because God is raised and is in us, so we are raised. The life we have is his strength. We are merely the shell that he inhabits and so can do nothing at all without him. Not I, but Christ because I am DEAD and he is alive in me. You see? So, I have to not ask him for "help" as if i do part of anything on my own. Instead, I know that everything is done through him, in his timing, and with his total strength. Once you contemplate all the implications of this and really the truth itself, it really begins to change EVERYTHING. | | |
| Wonderful weekend. I helped cook easter dinner at dave's for the first time! I decorated, played with kids, dyed easter eggs, hid easter baskets all over the house. Ok, that might sound too cheery, but it was really fun. It feels like home there. It is a home for me. :0)
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| I gave a pint of blood in six minutes today. :0)
Now, some of you might not think that is an accomplishment, but it makes the event fun to race!
Further news.... practicum is right around the corner and the next weeks are writing lesson plans and preparing mentally for the task ahead. (as if that's possible...) It's exciting to know that we're finally on the next threshold of life. What's going to happen when we step over it?!!!!
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