Month: May 2024

Just a Hug

As much as I feel like I’m on this planet to only teach, I have learned to listen to the children in my classroom.  They are 7, 8 , and 9.  Recently, I haven’t been feeling that great.  Many nights I’m waking up at 2:30am with some strange allergic reaction; swelling and hives.  A few nights I have thought that maybe it has to do with a drug interaction so I don’t take my meds and it causes trouble through the day.  It is just an odd symptom of everything else I deal with daily.  One such day I was really feeling bad.  Honestly, I just wanted my husband and I to hug a little longer, instead of going to work.  At work one of my children walked over to me and said, “Mrs. Piver, you know you are awesome, right?  You tell me I am awesome all the time and today, you need to know it too.”  With that she tightly hugged me.  I didn’t want to let go, it was just a hug, but it was greatly needed!  

Life is too short, to let things like this just past you by.  When it is offered, take it!  Even if it is from a little girl in your classroom.  I am happy that she felt the need to remind me (her teacher) that I am awesome and I really needed that hug!

Frustrations

I remember many years ago, I would get frustrated and I would kick things.  A teacher in college taught me Tai Chi to learn how to find my inner self and focus on balancing my emotions, rather than breaking a toe, or my foot.  I used it up until my children were small.  One day, I decided I didn’t have time to be frustrated at everything.  I’m not sure where that person went, frustrations are all around me!  I’ve been told it is because of my red-hair, my ADHD, my Scottish ancestry-line and the list goes on.  Personally, I’m just a stubborn person who likes things done in the here and now and done the right way.  If you get into a car with me, I might have a little car frustration  because of other crazy drivers.  Over the years I have had to take a step back, I’ve had to take a deep breath.  In class, my kids all know my frustrations, usually the Smart board, the printer or my computer.  As funny as it is to listen to my kids imitate me yelling at my  electronics, I know that being frustrated is not only a human emotion. 

Even though God doesn’t yell at a computer, he does let someone get eaten by a monster fish.  Even though he might not cut someone off on the road, he has used a donkey to tell his master he is going to wrong way.  It goes to show that frustrations happen.  However; there is a difference between being stupid and frustrated and being smart and frustrated.  God was frustrated with Jonah and being God, he let Jonah get swallowed by a large monster.  At the same time I’m sure he directed the monster fish to spit Jonah out, rather than swallowing him forever.  Even though he might not cut off that crazy driver, he instructed a donkey (a lowly animal) to tell his master that he wasn’t going to move past the angel.  It may not have been a humorous outcome at the time, but it is now! 

In my frustrations I need to remind myself that I do not understand how it works, it may work fine, I wouldn’t know.  I may not understand why I don’t work right anymore, but, God is still in control and God can help me understand, if I take a deep breath and ask for His help instead of yelling a the Smartboard or that crazy driver!  Do you ever find yourself frustrated?  

He Will Sustain Us

I get the feeling that my computer is just tired of me being on it and screaming at it.  I am so glad that I’m not the one that created it.  For one, even though there was a time that I was able to understand how to operate it, by no means would I understand how to create it!  I am so happy that God gave us different rolls to play here on Earth.  As I know a few Computer Technicians that are super savvy with computers, they usually don’t make much sense to me!  It is the same with doctors and anyone from the medical field.  I understand stuff that I have to understand, but beyond that, I’m glad to be a teacher!  Even some of the things as a teacher is a little confusing for me, especially now.  One thing I knew for certain, My God Can sustain us!  These last few weeks has been harder than usual physically.  I’m trying to continue being that super-star that can do everything even though I’m missing parts of my brain, missing strength in my legs, missing eyesight and most of my physical self is so different, but I can do it right?  Wrong!  I’m exhausted often, my eyes shut more than usual and I just want to sit and rest more than usual.  My physical super-human self is losing it’s super.  My doctor has been telling me for some time that I am just killing myself, but it wasn’t until the other day that I agreed that I was killing myself to keep going.  Now, I get to venture down the road to Social Security.  I have to remind myself over and over, ‘Christ will sustain us’.   He has always come through and He is aware that I may continue to try and be super-human, but in the end it will be Him.  Scripture reminds me that He was, is, and ever will be even through all the super-humans that have been born, lived and died.  God will sustain!