Mrs. Smith’s 1st grade – 2012-2013

After 17 years of teaching, I’m stepping away from my public school classroom.  I’ve certainly got mixed emotions about this change of life but more than anything I’m anxious to see what God has in store.

For many years I’ve wanted both “more” and “less” simultaneously; more time with my children, more time with my husband, more time for the things of God I’ve felt more and more compelled to pursue, and more time with my Father.  On the flip side I’ve needed less in my life.  Less on my to-do list.

We tend to over-commit and for many years our evenings and weekends have been as full as our work weeks.  Add grocery shopping, food prep for the week, laundry and house-cleaning to the list of weekend events and we’re more tired on Monday mornings than Fridays.  We’ve joked that we need to get back to work to rest.

Although we’ve consciously tried to safe-guard our family and marriage, our busyness has kept a certain rest-filled, peaceful, joyous quality of life at arm’s length.  Ergo…  my resignation.