Tag: wherever you are be all there

• When being “all there” takes you away from here…

  

  “Wherever you are be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” Sometimes I take this proclamation by Jim Elliot too far. As I attended the graduation ceremony of these “my” seniors, I felt not unlike a parent who had given her children up for adoption just…

  Sara

  June 5, 2015

  Christian life, teaching

  class of 2015, former teacher, graduation, Jim Elliot, teaching, wherever you are be all there

• Resolving to be “all there” …

  

  I have newfound resolve — just in time for 2015.This Christmas season I’m different. Once I had the Christmas lights hung (always more complicated, frustrating, and time-consuming than it should be), I found I wasn’t my humbug self. I joyed each night as dusk came and the windows glowed with their outline of colored lights. The tree…

  Sara

  December 31, 2014

  character, Christian life, exercise, inspiration, life, teaching

  66 Love Letters, Jim Elliot, Larry Crabb, New Year’s, New Year’s resolutions, wherever you are be all there

• When work feels like play…

  Today I have the privilege to attend a conference that will help me lead my school through the accreditation process. I will be in a small room for meetings for about eight hours and then battle city and interstate traffic during rush hour to get home, likely late—so I can go to real work the…

  Sara

  November 4, 2013

  character, Christian life, education, friends, Humor, life, teaching

  accreditation process, I Love Lucy, Jim Elliot, Lucy and Ethel, NaBloPoMo, Orlando, teaching, wherever you are be all there, work