My Passion.

I really have been overwhelmed lately with how much I want to teach. Of course, there are moments when I realize that I am crazy, but there are more moments of great joy about my profession than I can count.

Now, it's story time:

This is my school where I am working at currently. It's the MCCA (McClennan County Challenge Academy)

Cute right?

Wrong. That is not the word that I would think of to describe this school. For one, its in the middle of no where.Another thing, this is really it. I am standing at the back of the parking lot next to the cop car. 

This school screams scary. When you enter, you are not allowed to bring anything in. The students are searched by hand and by metal detector. They are not allowed to just walk around alone. ever. They are always with an adult.

These kids are here because they have gotten into some trouble....drugs, theft, sexual assault, bringing weapons to school...you name it, they have done it.

And to top it all off, we have to wear khaki pants with gold shirts....which do not look good on me....just saying.

Sounds like a winning place right?
Well, that's what I thought too when I looked at this building, but God immediately grabbed a hold of my heart and began to work. Big time.

I got to thinking. This building is me. This building is you.

We are the broken, the liars, the lost, the ones who nobody wants to look at or even attempt to enter. But our Heavenly Father willingly enters into those doors everyday. Regardless of the pain we have caused. Regardless of the times we laugh in His face. Regardless of everything, He enters in.

And He begins a transformation within us. This transformation carries out into our lives and surrounds us in whatever we do.

Is this not what we are to do?

We are called into the homes of the lost, not the found. We are called to the sick, not the healthy. We are called to the hurting, not the ones who are pain free.

I, specifically, am being called into this school.

This really is my passion. My passion is to go into the schools and work with students who others look at and turn around. I desire to be that light where they have only been exposed to darkness. These kids might not always deserve a second chance, but neither do we, yet we get one.

This is my heart. My heart is with these students and the lives that I can positively affect by just walking into those places where others turn and go the other way. My heart is in schools.


Here is me in a small nutshell. See my heart. Know my passion. And please, don't turn away....but instead, discover yours.