Roots and Wings

My goodness, I am so thankful to have other Christians at work on my team. It was a specific prayer of ours when I went back to teaching full-time this year. I don't know how people do it, otherwise.

There are (many) days when I feel that my resevoir has been just completely depleted. During the school day students have needs (so. many. needs.), teachers have needs, parents have needs, my principal has needs...and then after school we begin trying to tackle the family needs. The laundry is piled up, the calendar is crammed full, and the soul is tapped out.

Where is my Source? Do I even have my roots...grounded? Near the right Water?

This morning, Kaela and I got to school fairly early (for us). I cut through a teammate's classroom to get to my own, and she was clearly burdened. She's a Christian, too, and is such a source of humor, lightheartedness, and encouragement. She had been to Bible study last night, come out feeling convicted, and needed to unload her heavy heart. Wow, it must have been some Bible study, because "as iron sharpens iron..." I felt convicted by her words and testimony all day today. We had the best talk, and it centered the beginning of my day on a whole new Axis...

I've had to turn off the radio until after the election. Too little Jesus, too much politics. My quiet time has been sporadic in the past 2 weeks. How quickly we drift. How completely our minds and hearts can be consumed with things that aren't so important.

One day Jesus was walking through Samaria. He was tired so he rested at Jacob’s well. In the heat of the day, a woman came to draw some water. Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink.’ … The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?’ … Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life’” (John 4:7-14).

I'm incredibly grateful for Christian teammates who help cover my roots again when they get unearthed and gnarled. I want them to go deep. More than anything else, I want them to go deep near the Source that springs eternally--regardless of busyness, or circumstances, or our stacks of laundry.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31