Everything and All of it

In this post I will attempt to tell you:
1. Job news
2. All about Hebrew School
3. My cool cookie today
4. How my awesome husband went out of his way to help me today

Job News:
Well, I have been offered a full time position being a secretary next year at ISF. My Whittier Christian Principal made some noises about maybe having some teaching job for me next year. And (this is really so cool) I got a letter in the mail today from the Whittier Union High School District saying how pleased they were to meet me at the Biola Teacher Job Fair and that they wanted to encourage me to apply for a job with them. We are talking La Serna type high schools here folks - very cool and very exciting. This district is the type I want to work at and in the area that I want to work in. Very exciting!

All about Hebrew School:
As part of the research that I'm doing for my thesis I went and observed a Hebrew class yesterday at the local Jewish Temple. Let me just say that the Rabbi was extremely kind to me - allowing me to go there on very short notice. Also, the lady teaching the class was one that I went to high school with and her older sister, another of my old classmates, was there too. It was really cool because I got to talk with her for an hour about God and then I got to see some really cute fourth graders learning Hebrew. And yes, I did gather some good information there for my thesis. Yay! It was so strange though, to be in a place of worship and not feel the presence of the Holy Spirit when I walked in. It was like the building was just an empty building ... which I guess it was. All this to say, I am inspired to pray more for God's chosen people.

My Cool Cookie Today:
About five minutes before school started today one of my gawky (but funny and very awesome) 14-year-old boy students walked into my classroom and plopped a giant cookie on my desk without a word. I looked up and asked, "What's that for?" and he said, "That is to get you to come back and teach next year. You are the first Spanish teacher that I have done well with." And then he turned around and walked out of the classroom and didn't come back until the bell rang. It was such a fourteen-year-old boy sort of thing to do, running out of words, getting embarrassed, and walking away like that, but his making me a cookie and saying that to me was so amazingly sweet that I had to work to keep myself from crying. It was just amazing. I felt so appreciated - way more than I have before in my life. Wow. I was blessed. I want to coat that cookie in bronze and keep it forever ... but I won't.

How my awesome husband went out of his way to help me today:
Josh was so cool to me today! I had an item that I had purchased and needed to go and pick up from the vendor, and he drove me there and back. Also, when we opened the item at home and discovered that they had put some of the wrong parts in there, he was totally willing to drive the 1/2 hour all the way back over there to get the right parts for me. Wow! What a husband! (I ended up talking on the phone with the vendor and arranging to mail the parts back while they mailed me the correct parts - so Josh didn't have to go, but he was willing to go and that is what counts).

So, I'm doing ok right now. Life is still busy. But I am blessed beyond measure. God is so good to me! I could never do what I'm doing without all the support that I have and all that good that comes to me I know is from the One who loves me best. As my niece's books says, Thank you dear God!