Life is like a box of chocolates

Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies. The thing I always thought interesting was whenever he was asked if he was stupid he would say, "Stupid is as stupid does." So, let's look at things this way. If life is like a box of chocolates (you never know what you're going to get), and stupid is as stupid does, what does that mean to us right now? Or to make it more personal, what does it mean to me?

As you may know, I graduated close to a month ago on December 19th. I went on a cruise, I got back home, and slowly have been thinking about my last 4.5 years, what's to come, and what is happening right now in the present. I am not substitute teaching (may not be...we'll see), I don't have any interim positions, and the real hiring for most school systems doesn't start for a couple of months. I got my diploma and a letter from my university telling me that I have completed everything necessary for my license, and it is currently at the state department getting processed. I am going to apply at Williamson County but lately I have been thinking about Rutherford County as well. I suppose it depends on who is hiring and what may make a good fit between the school and what I have to offer.

As far as what I have been doing, I have been helping out where I can lately. I've also read several books. My book study finally finished J.I. Packer's Knowing God (Shout out to Michael), and I have also read John MacArthur's The Truth War, Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees, and I am currently reading another John MacArthur book, A Tale of Two Sons.

On a different note, I am also pretty excited about what Phillip and I are going to do for Lifegroups this semester. We have found out what they want to learn, and we're going to try to break it up and teach it. This will be good because it's something that they will be interested in and we will be too. Our church is also doing some really awesome things this year. The Church at Station Hill will be up and running soon, we will have more focus on discipleship/evangelism church-wide, and I think things will take a different turn.

Binks is crying at me right now, so I think I need to wrap this up. As a matter of fact when I just wrote that sentence, he shook his paw at me and knocked my computer over. Silly dog.

I hope that when you open your box of chocolates, that you will enjoy the experience of eating chocolate despite what flavor you get. Have a good one!