Post-Christmas update...

Thought I'd update y'all on the happenings in Amber and I's life so far...


Since the last post, my job had been very much in limbo, and Amber and I were preparing to move elsewhere to find a job between the two of us.  In fact, she had even verbally accepted an offer to teach in Tuscaloosa, and while I had let my principal know about this development, there didn't seem to be any indication that I could still possibly-kinda-maybe-sorta have my job back.  Well, God decided to reveal His plan for us with two days before school started, and Amber and I are thankfully staying in Madison at least through the summer.


I say "through the summer" because I am not tenured.  By the end of the school year, I will have only completed my second year of teaching.  I need to have completed a full 3 years plus be asked to come back to start my fourth in the same school district in order to receive tenure.  Does tenure guarantee that I have job each year at a school before I retire?  Absolutely not, but it does make it a bit easier to know that I will have some sort of a job each year.  That is, unless God has other plans, and He normally does.


I am also back in coaching track for the spring, but I am coaching the middle distance runners this season as opposed to the distance runners that I had last year.  I am willing to do whatever it takes, and if it means coaching an area that I had some but not a lot of experience in, I'll do it.


I say all of the above with this in mind - God will provide, but He provides in his own time, and in His own way.  That provision accomplishes several things: 1) It glorifies Him in some/way/shape/form; 2) Ultimately, it'll make me (and others) the happiest, which means God knows the best for me, not me; and 3) We must be patient.  The Bible says that we must be slow to speak and slow to anger, and we must also allow God to do whatever He does to make things happen (or not happen).  While it is so incredibly hard to not get ahead of ourselves and think what we need to have happen, I at least try to check myself from time to time to just be patient, do whatever God has placed in front of me, and let Him do His work.


That's the update, I'm hoping this will turn into more of a continual thought of where I stand in my relationship with Christ and other observations I feel the need to speak on that occur in my life.  Roll Tide, and God bless.