God Has Certainly Answered Our Prayers

Since last January I have been praying that God would open a door for me in my career. I love teaching and truly feel I am using my spiritual gifts He gave me every day. However, my heart aches to be with Merit more then I am now. We are so blessed to have friends and family who help out with Merit but I feel that I am missing out on so much with him. In March, I turned in my letter of resignation to PCA stating that I would not be returning in the Fall. Since that day, God has opened doors right and left for me. With doors opening, I have felt this is confirmation from God that we have made the right decision for our family. I started looking at different schools, reading about them and seeing which ones had part-time teachers. I hand delivered a few resumes and sent some letters of interest with my resume via email. I immediately had an offer from Park Cities Weekday Preschool and First Baptist of Richardson Day School. The only reservation I had was that I wouldn't really be using my degree and experience. So, I continued my search. Well, Mother's Day evening J.P. took me to dinner. We had a wonderful dinner at Breadwinners and then on the way home he spotted a school off of Preston road. We drove by and checked it out. J.P. googled it and read about it while I got Merit ready for bed. He thought it was really a neat place. While I was at work on Monday J.P. sent me an email telling me that the school had a position posted that was perfect for me. They were looking for a part-time Elementary English teacher. They wanted someone certified to teach English/Language arts at the 5th grade level. He said, "Babe, that is you!" So, when I got home that evening I sent a brief letter of interest along with my resume to the Head of School. The school emailed me back the next day saying that I fit exactly what they are looking for and they'd like for me to come in for an interview.I didn't respond because I didn't know how to respond. I was excited but I was still teaching full time. I knew it would be difficult for me to do this. The next morning I received another email from them asking if I could come in and teach a lesson under observation for them. Wow! I was feeling very overwhelmed! I called J.P. and he told me to make it happen. So, I called the head of their elementary and set a date and time to come in. I spend a lot of time over the weekend preparing the lesson. I taught a 50 minute lesson on the poet Langston Hughes and his poem, I Too Sing America. Here are a couple of videos I used to enhance my lesson. One is the words of the poem put to music with pictures, watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eilT5hkPkg&feature=fvwrel, and the other video is a clip from the movie, The Great Debaters. Denzel Washington recites the poem and does so with such feeling, check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuRQDrySOVQ&feature=related. I hope you enjoy the videos!
So, the lesson went just as planned and I could tell the Administration enjoyed it. There were three Administrators watching me, a classroom full of students and the current teacher of the class. I was not nervous at all. God gave me such peace and confidence.
The next morning I received an email offering me the position. Praise the Lord! What an answer to so many prayers! I have officially accepted the position and signed my new contract.
I will be teaching two classes of 5th grade Language Arts and Reading in English, 7 hours for each class. I will also teach Math vocabulary in English, 1 hour for each class. My new schedule will be 16 hours per week instead of 40! I am beyond excited that God has opened this door for our family! The school will even pay for me to get my Master's degree; which I have wanted to obtain for a very long time.
Thank you friends and family for your continued prayers. God is good and He knows our needs better then we do.