Yes, today I am most certainly thankful for the one and only show... Duck Dynasty! We have always somehow received cable channels on our tv from Miami, FL, but we have NEVER been able to get A & E and watch Duck Dynasty. Caitlin was flipping through the channels tonight and lo and behold, it was playing a marathon on Lifetime! Sweet sweet victory at last! I have definitely missed this show more than any other one from home. The stinky part is that we can't watch episodes online on the website outside of the States, and I'm not a fan of downloading things and risking damaging my whole laptop. Let's face it, it's already in pretty rough shape what with it's non-working screen and all. Anyways, I enjoyed a good hour and a half of my favorite show, with someone else who actually appreciates it the way I do, so it was a really good night.
I guess on a more serious note, today I was reminded how thankful I am for relationships with my students that just continue to build. Today, one of my grade 7 girls came up to me to talk and comment on how "cool" it was that she saw me walking by her house earlier in the weekend. Apparently, to her, I'm cool enough to say hi to outside of school grounds. That's always nice. =) What really touched me was after that, she opened up real quick and told me about a really hard family situation that happened to her this weekend. I asked her how she was doing and she just said point blank: "I'm really not good at all. It's really hard." She's one of those girls that doesn't open up a whole lot, so for her to say that, it really touched me. So those of you reading this who are believers in prayer like I am, please keep her in your prayers. Her family is having a rough time and it's one of those things that wouldn't normally happen so easily if they lived somewhere else. My heart breaks for her, but I'm also hopeful because of the faith we both share in a God who is bigger than all this earthly pain. I'm encouraged to know that every trial is only for a season, and God didn't create rainbows after the rain for nothing, right? God is really really good, and I think we all too easily forget that in the midst of the day to day. Sometimes, when a situation gets too rough for me or seems too overwhelming, it is REALLY hard for me to see God at work or feel like He could POSSIBLY be using this time in my life for the good of spreading His name. Yet somehow, He always surprises me. I know He is at work in my students' lives just the same. For that, I am extremely thankful.
An old friend reminded me of this truth in a beautiful way today... I don't know what my tomorrow holds, but I know who holds my tomorrow.
That's all we really need after all, right?
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