Blended Life of an Educator

 "The imagination is the seedbed for faith." Wendy Backlund, Igniting Hope Ministries I love this quote from Wendy's book "Victorious Emotions." And isn't it so true?! We have to imagine the possibilities... the WHAT IFs of God, I like to call them... intentionally choosing to ignore fear's lure to drop low into its labyrinth of potential scary outcomes, and instead look up into the face of hope. We have to intentionally ask ourselves: What's the best possible outcome of THIS circumstance I'm facing?  Intentional thinking... it takes work, right? We've got to build some new neural pathways that reroute us to imagine the best, right?  It's much easier to take a few spins with the foreboding music flooding our ears and the looming feeling of dread sinking us further still, but what if we unlatched from the popular fear route and had another thought? What if instead, we engaged our imagination, the seedbed of faith, and "woke up" t...

Are the Signs of the Times Causing You to Panic? The other day I was greatly distressed. I had been doing research about the move of Critical Race Theory invading our curriculum in my state. Scanning through online lesson plans, seeing correlations with Black Lives Matter agendas to try indoctrinate our youth to live with chips on their shoulders, draw racial lines that will "remake" history, and redefine identity based on a child's choice of sexual preference... gave me a migraine and sent me into the land of FEAR. How could my kids be growing up in this day and age when truth is so grey? What are the standards of morality if everyone defines them and everyone is "right?" The fact that the truth, or the "right" way, is being blurred so badly caused me have a mini emotional freak out.  My husband gently pulled me out of my downward spiral into the abiss of FEAR with this quote from  Fear Factor  by Kevin and Chad Dedmon:  "Fear is the last battle ...