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Things They Remember: Making Room for Love
“Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV I’m intentional about creating a classroom environment in which students feel loved, both by each other and by me. During our time of online and hybrid learning, I used journal reflections to give students opportunities to think about and write responses to…
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Hands on the Wheel: Praying for Patience
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12 ESV I’ve become an insanely impatient driver. I attribute my driving frustrations to everything that happens on my drive to work each morning. What should be a 10-15 minute drive can be filled with anything…
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The Things They Remember: Sharing God with My Students
“But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.” 1 Corinthians 2:14-15 NIV Working in a public school, I…
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And So I Write
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.’” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV Summer of 2022 – My first summer not being in school since 2018. I achieved my dream of becoming Dr. Kimberly Russell…