It was July, 2000, and I was sitting by the side of the pool, watching my Summer school students laugh the way through their swimming lessons. I was struck mid-splash with the proverbial bolt of lightning inspiration to return to college. Two weeks later I was enrolled full-time in the the Art program at Southern Oregon University.
I never would have fathomed that it would be eleven years later and I would not be back in a classroom.
Yet.
I'm ready and excited for now.
I miss my work with the classroom-challenged warriors of academia. I have always been inspired by the perseverance these students employ, showing up day after day to a place that is frustrating at best, confounding and defeating at worst.
I am a proud advocate for the brilliance in all of us - it isn't always found on paper or in the results of a pop quiz. It is the teachers I worked with in Oregon who taught me how to be flexible and responsive to the needs of students around me. They showed me that being present, being truly with each student was the key to success. Teachers are true heroes and I miss my work with them, learning from them and laughing with them at the end of a well-earned good day, as much as I miss the work with students.
I am so looking forward to getting back into it all, ready for all the new lessons awaiting us...
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IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE?
Who will be allowed to enter the great city, the holy Jerusalem, when time will no longer exist?
Revelation 21:9-27..... 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city , the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God........27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.(NKJV)
That narrows it down. You do not have to speculate about that which defiles. You do not have to wonder what or who causes an abomination or a lie. If your name is not written in the Lamb's Book of Life you are the guilty one.
Philippians 4:3 And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life.(NKJV)
Whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life? All of those whose sins have been washed away by the blood of the Lamb have their names written in the Book of Life.
How do men get their sins washed away?
1. Faith: John 3:16
2. Repentance: Acts 3:19, Acts 2:38
3. Confession:Romans 10:9
4. Water Baptism: Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Ephesians 5:25-27
Having your name written on the membership role of your local church does not guarantee that your name will be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Your name might be written in the book at the Baptist Church, the Lutheran Church, the Mosque, the Catholic Church, the Temple of Freemasonry, the Methodist church, the Elks Lodge, the Salvation Army, the Mormon Church, the Buddhist Temple, the Community Church, the Christian Church, the Synagogue, etc., however, if your name is not written in the Lamb's Book of Life you will not be allowed into the holy city, the new Jerusalem.
Revelation 3:1-5......."He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.(NKJV)
Yes, your name can be erased from the Book of Like.
Revelation 13:4-8 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast.....8 And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(NKJV)
At the end times all who do not not have their names written in the Book of Life will worship the beast.
There are men today who worship false gods. There are men, even now, who worship the Pope, the Virgin Mary and other dead saints by praying to them.
Is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life? If not, you will not be entering the holy city, the new Jerusalem
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