Dreaming of Rulers and Notebooks

You know those times when you can't stop thinking about the future. You consciously try to stop yourself from thinking but it's as if your thoughts are rolling down a hill and there is nothing you can do to stop your brain's momentum. Well that is the condition I have found myself in this past week. I cannot get my classroom out of my head. It's soaking up all my brain space! Luckily, this brain momentum has given me some really great ideas! (Thank goodness!)The Lord,however, interrupted my brain momentum this morning with a little reality check. "Many are the plans in a man's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." - Proverbs 19:21. I have so many "great ideas" for what the coming year will be like, but I have no idea what the Lord has planned. I have no idea what my students will need and what work He has decided to do in their lives. So as my brain wonders and wonders and wonders, I realize that only some of it, if any, will come to fruition. Regardless it is fun and exciting to dream of the best ways to motivate my students and challenge them to grow into incredible men and women of God. I do get to meet my students via Skype on Sundy night (Monday morning for them). I am so excited to see their faces and put sreal aces and names to the class I have been thinking about and praying for. Please pray that I will leave the impression that the Lord wants me to leave with them before we meet face to face. I'll hopefully get an idea of things that they enjoy that I can incorporate into my planning this summer. Thanks again for reading. I am so greatful for all the prayers and encouragement!