Come Ye Sinners

"Come ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore. Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love, and power.

I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms. In the arms of my dear Savior, oh there are ten thousand charms..."
-Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy

I went up and saw my grandmother in the hospital tonight. This was the first time in at least a month that I have seen her and it was good. My mom said that she has been getting terribly lonely around dinner time and after, which is the time that I had been visiting her up at the nursing home. So, it looks like my rounds of regularly visiting her after work around dinner time will be beginning again. As I was listening to this song, it reminded me of her and how frail she seems, and how much she needs to know the Lord. At the same time I am reminded of myself and how needy I am as well. The Lord has been doing a work in me this week--hard to describe, except that it is me being forced to lean upon Him for each activity that needs to be accomplished, literally one step at a time. For I have been exhausted and overworked this whole month. It is amazing how stressful it has been, yet at the same time He has been faithful to bring me through it. "This too shall pass."

This morning as I was sitting in a professional development meeting, I truly had no idea how I was going to make it through the rest of my busy day as I was almost falling asleep at the table. But as I was driving to church this afternoon to teach two of my classes, the Lord literally revived me and gave me a peace about teaching. Even as the first class started, He even renewed my joy for teaching these kids. During the second class one of the students had a melt down, something that has never happened before in that class, but even that worked out for the better. This is a class that needed some refocusing and some serious discipline and the incident literally shocked them into submission. The Lord reminded me of a classroom management strategy that I had not used in a few years--it worked so well today that we are going to keep using it.

What I was really worried about for today was meeting with my adviser. I am almost finished writing my proposal and was not able to finish for today's meeting. But the meeting went so well, and because she is going out of town next week our next meeting isn't until the end of my spring break, so I will have my week off from teaching to finish writing my proposal. I am so excited about that. And that I can relax this weekend. This coming week is our huge district wide 400+ student String Festival. While I do enjoy the event, I don't enjoy the stress the leads up to it. This month has been so busy with All County, the String Festival preparations and budget woes that I've literally been losing my mind. I can tell that I am absolutely fried when I keep mixing up simple conducting patterns during orchestra rehearsals. But thankfully this will be over soon.
I was blessed today to run into one of my theory teachers from the summer, and to hear about the professorship that he was offered. And to have someone be able to relate to the stresses of working and going to school at the same time-it was just a wonderful conversation! So, I have been greatly blessed today and thankful that the Lord has carried me through it. I do pray that He would continue to uphold me in the palm of His hand!