Wonder and Letting Go

Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?
My special ed kids have created the biggest sense of wonder. A lot of these kids are a mystery to figure out some days, and when something clicks it is absolutely one of the greatest feelings ever. These kids always leave me in a sense of wonder of how their mind works, and what's going through their minds. They leave me in wonder when they prove people wrong. Especially when they prove their first teacher wrong when that teacher said this child could never learn. That same child is now learning so fast I'm constantly having to find ways to make his learning materials a little bit harder. There are times where I wish there was technology out that would allow us to listen to whats going on in these kid's minds so that we know whats wrong when they meltdown or where they don't feel good at, something like that would also help us to know just how much knowledge they actually have but can't express which would help us teach them better. But we probably won't ever have something like that since there are people out there that would abuse and twist it and use it for evil instead of good. So yeah, my special kids have cultivated the most wonder in me!

 Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?

This year I let go of my boyfriend Andrew. That seriously was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I'm grateful though that we'll never have to repeat that kind of goodbye ever again. One time was way too hard. I let him go so he could go preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that families can be together forever, and so the world knows that the church Christ formed in the New Testament has once again been restored to the earth. I'm so very proud of him! He has such a great love for the people he's serving and teaching and he has grown so much already in the 4 months he's been out that it'll be amazing to see how much he grows in the next 20 months.