Sometime, perhaps, I will write the longer version of the decision for me to resign from teaching during this season of our lives. For now, I will focus on this nugget of truth…
A peek into the beginning of this season of my life… May 3, 2018 –
I’m not sure how I stumbled onto Micah 6:8 back in August as I prepared for this year school year, but it’s been on the front of my meeting notes binder all year. I remember reading it this first time and realizing this thought from the prophet of old, Micah, could be speaking straight to my overwhelmed teacher soul! Then, this week, eight months later as the school year was coming to an end, as I rolled in the depths of anxiety about future plans, here it popped…
He (the Lord) has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
As I read the earlier chapters of Micah during my Bible study, it never even crossed my mind I was in the same part of Scripture… but reading that verse and then realizing the note had been on my personalized mousepad AND my binder since the beginning of the year – was a wake-up call. The Lord had asked only these three things of my heart all year and those were all He was asking now. So, it was with shaky hands and tear-filled eyes, I wrote my resignation letter and gave it to my beloved principal in immediate obedience. I trust God is in every detail – the beginning of each season and the end – which is usually the beginning of another. I still don’t know what I’m doing next year, but I know what God asks of me. And I know he’ll be there all the way through.
Many Blessings, Bethany