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The Rest of the Story...

Every week I write a blog for my fifth grade students and their parents. I include it in our weekly newsletter to parents, and I read it with my students on Friday. Once we’ve read it together, I have the students respond to it as a part of their weekly language arts grade. As I sit down to write on Wednesday or Thursday, I always try to think of a situation in my life from which I have learned some valuable lesson that I can pass on to my students. I want to use parts of my life to teach them not only academic skills but also skills to help them learn and live as respectful, happy citizens of our fast paced, ever changing society. I want to offer a part of me to better relate to them and their families while offering pieces of advice and encouragement I feel that I have received over time.

As I reflect on my life and all it entails each week, I continuously realize that my blogs are missing what I truly wish I could talk about with my students and their families…my spiritual life and all that God is teaching me on a daily basis. I try my best to offer the truth through my classroom blog, but it’s hard when you are tiptoeing along a very thin public school line. Throughout the unexpected snow vacation this week, God has been working on my heart about starting a blog that tells the rest of the story. There is always more to it, and I know He wants me to share all that it seems I have to leave out each week. As insignificant as they may be or as obvious as they may seem, the lessons and reminders that God has been giving me are worth sharing. I know from being a teacher that if one person struggles with something or has a question about something, there are bound to be others with the same issues and questions. I don’t claim by any means to know everything or be an expert on anything at all, but I do know that I love to write, and I love to share learning with others. And I also know that I would be remiss if I did not tell the rest of the story…

So, ready or not, I am embarking on this new blogging journey in hopes that God may work through me to reach others for Him. My prayer is that this blog not only strengthens my relationship with Christ but that it offers encouragement to all who read it.

Hebrews 3:13 “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.”



You can read my classroom blogs each week if you want, but I will always post them (along with the rest of the story) on this blog. For a while, I may pull old classroom blogs and finish their stories as well. I also plan to blog more than once a week with whatever God has put on my heart to share.

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