Wow, it's October 8th...almost a whole month since I've posted here. Well, to start I finally got my request to work part time with CEF approved by the committee. I would have started this week, but do to legal issues, I have to work 10 hours a week minimum or I don't count as an employee...and that wasn't possible to do in one day. I'll be teaching at Philomath Middle School on Mondays and Franklin Elementary School on Thursdays. What's really cool is, 6 years ago when I started helping with the Released Time Class here in Monroe, we were in the Moses curriculum...which is where we are again. I'll also be teaching a Sunday school class every other week at my church, Calvary Chapel Corvallis. Of course, I'll be helping with Sunday school every week, but I'm only teaching every other week that way I don't have too much to study. If everything works out well, I'll be able to trade off when I teach where, so that the week I'm teaching at the schools will be the week I don't teach at church, and vice versa.
As life continues to move forward, I keep finding doors that are either open or shut. Most of you have probably heard the old saying, "Where God closes a door, He opens a window." (I think that would work better with another door, as not everyone can make it up to or fit through a window) Of course, there are always easy to see doors, like having to go to school or get a job, ones that are specific. But these doors pretty much remain open all the time. Other doors are closed, and when God knows that you are ready for what is on the other side, He'll open the door. Things like teaching Sunday school classes or moving to another state. Sometimes the door is required, as all the other doors are shut, and sometimes there is a choice.
Each time you go through a door, you come to a new room, complete with it's own set of doors for you to go through, although sometimes the only door in the room is the one you just came through, in which case there will be something else in the room for you to acquire before you return to where you came from. Right now, I can say that I've been through many doors and rooms, some leading to new rooms and some with a skill or piece of knowledge inside that I pick up and save for later (I just noticed, this is starting to sound a lot like a Legend of Zelda Dungeon...) However, recently there has been a door that is in every room I come to. It's not like the other doors, being solid wood through and through. Instead, this door is made out of pieces of stained glass, allowing me to see a blurry and somewhat distorted picture of what is behind it.
So far, the door has yet to be opened. However, as time passes, I can see more and more of what is behind it. It's almost like God is using the door to push me onward, preparing for what is behind the door, so that when He opens it, I will be ready to embrace the challenge that lies ahead.
Hopefully I didn't lose any of you back there it that maze of metaphoric doors. If you don't understand what I mean, or are wondering exactly what I'm talking about, all will be revealed with time. I'm still not entirely sure what lies behind the stained glass door, but if it happens to be what it seems, trust that you will be told soon.
Catch ya later!
