MomminginMinistry

photo credit: Joel Messner, Hotel McCoy "You'll never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it" (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird ). There are a few subjects that are themes in my life. My favorite things to talk about. Defend. The line in the sand, hills I will die on.  The gospel-the good news of God's redemptive love. Coffee is worth heartburn. Love is the whole pie, not a slice of it. How we treat the oppressed...the immigrant, orphan, widow, and poor...is how we would treat Jesus if he were here (spoiler: he literally said that). Stories are what shape us as a society. And empathy is a strength not a weakness. Maybe I'm biased. In the Strength Finder test empathy is my #1 strength so every time lately I hear it attacked a piece of me dies a little. It was pretty much universally seen as a strength to everyone but the mafia until about a year ago, and now it's ...

 So... I've had this aching pain going down my neck and into my shoulders for two weeks now. Sometimes It's accompanied by the feeling that my sinuses are also trying to birth something inside my face somewhere between my cheek bones and where my eye socket meets the top left corner of my nose. And I'm guessing it's a manifestation of stress. This feeling that the whole world is going to fall apart if I don't stress about it enough. Some of that is normal job stress I supposed. Like, some teenagers in the classroom I was subbing for Thursday may have ordered Chick fil A to the school via door dash, even though phones are definitely prohibited during the school day. And we got two noise complaints from the class testing next door even though I thought it was actually quieter than it sometimes is. So now I'm feeling extremely insecure about classroom management skills because other than those two things I'd say it was a pretty good day.  And there's the pa...