Happy Thursday!

There was an air of sadness at school today as we watched our friend and colleague pack for a new school. The young man I spoke of last evening, and a teacher on my team, packed his room today and will begin to set up a new room tomorrow at South Hills Elementary School and have new students on Monday. He will teach kindergarten. We are praying for him and wish him the very best in his new school, but we are really going to miss him.

John 6:68 “Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

Matthew 16: 15 “But whom say you that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Our friend Jacob is going to have to earn to trust and learn from a new team at a new school. He is going to have to learn to teach a different grade level. He did not want to accept this new place and position, but if he wants to work in this district, he had to accept the district’s decision. The district is the final decision.

God tells us to “learn of Me.” The Word of God is the Word on which we live our lives. God’s Word tells us to abide in Him, have no fear and it also tells us to accept my will for you. Trust in Me.

In these times it is so difficult to be grateful, yet His Word tells us to be grateful because He is in the midst of our difficulties, our trials and the tough roads we must walk. Remember that God walks the difficult road with us and never leaves our side.

I am not sure that God plans for us to walk tough roads and have times of difficulty, but I do think that when those hard times come, He makes a plan for us and sees us through. We must be willing to accept His will and abide in His Word. We must learn of Him.

So when we are uprooted from what we know and are no longer surrounded by those we know and have grown close to and are asked to CHANGE, we must rely on God and learn of Him.

Take joy in the journey and hug your babies. Love you all, Bruce, Gaylene, Geni and Travis.

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I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe and I believe God.

PS Please lift up in prayer the Happening Weekend which begins tomorrow in McGregor,Texas, its 11 participants and staff. Geni, Travis and I will leave sometime tomorrow. Thank you friends. gc