The Beauty of Contagious Passion

I've finished my teaching degree! I'm relieved, exhausted and still kind of in shock that I've actually finished... 6 years of tertiary study. I haven't loved every minute of it, but there have been moments that things I have read have made me really passionate. About building relationships with kids, families and supporting them in anyway I can.... But I'm not really sure I want to be a full time teacher in a school. I love supporting kids and helping them learn, think and grow. I want to share with them about how amazing living life with Jesus can be. I've been looking at applying for jobs as a children's pastor and if they go through, this would mean moving away from the two churches I currently go to and starting a life at a new one. Last night I prayed that God would give me peace about a potential position while I applied if this was from Him (I've been feeling pretty anxious lately). When I went to apply for the job this morning, I had peac...

It's the end of my degree, I've got more time to complete assignments now than ever before. I only have two subjects, 1 week of classes and two assignments to go... and yet my motivation is at an all time low... I should be bouncing off walls, excited for next year and all the crazy potential that it holds... But instead, I feel that familiar fear of unpredictability rising higher, there are butterflies in my stomach and I feel stressed at the mere thought of what's next.... Oh how I want a way out of feeling like this... It's so much better than it has been but it's still hard and I'm tired of it. I wondered about medication... but seems the side effects of that are too intense. It will all calm down when I know what's happening.  I love investigating personality profiles, finding ways we can get to know ourselves better and how we can better care for ourselves and others. Anyway, recently I've discovered... after years of considering myself an ext...

I've just come back from leading on another kids camp and right now I should really be working on an assignment... but my mind is spinning with all that God has shown me this week- So I need to share first. It's been over two years since my last kids camp. I've been putting it off due to prac, working so much with kids in other areas of my life as well as burning out at the end of  2014 camp... This time I had the sense God wanted me back at camp. At first I thought everything would be fine but then as always life got a bit hectic and I ended up going to camp off the back of a week of moving house, very emotional goodbyes which had left me incredibly drained... And while I was happy to be back at camp... I felt far from ready... As the week went on... I saw more and more things that filled my tired heart with joy and God filled me up in a ways that He knows make me deeply happy. I watched young first and second time leaders building relationships with their cam...

It's that time of year again, a time of crazy transition... And well time I blogged I'm half a semester away from finishing my uni degree as a teacher, I finish my nannying job tomorrow, move house the day after, my current flatmates and beautiful friends head off on a three month adventure while I'm on camp that starts a day after moving house and then I come back to a giant assignment due for uni. Usually this kind of upheaval would send me stressing weeks if not months ahead of time. This time it hasn't. This time it's only hit me now... A few days before it's all going to happen.  I think the difference is this. In my head, this is good change- even though some of it still feels over whelming... Sorry for the potential cheesiness that follows =) As I finish my undergrad I can now go onto (hopefully- application permitting) study to be a special education teacher, something which on all of my pracs I have grown to love and can't wait to l...