Consistent

Consistent...probably one of the words that I love the most, yet also really can't stand.  Consistent is a word that teachers and parents all have to be.  I am not a parent but I know that in my everyday teaching life I have to be consistent.  The one time I don't say..."what's the first thing you should do when you get your paper?"  Well that is when I will have a whole stack of papers without names.  Sure, it isn't that tough in a class of 10, but it just the fact that we can say it everyday, and then stop saying it and they just completely forget.  So...even though I find it annoying I keep saying it everyday single time a paper is passed out.  There are other areas in which I feel the need to be consistent.  My beliefs, my friendships, my eating habits.  That last one is probably the worse one for me right now.  I have really been trying to stick to only things that are naturally grown from the ground...but you know there is just something about sinking your teeth into a brownie that makes all the troubles of the world disappear.  Hopefully one day I will be able to do raw desserts too, but for now I am trying to be consistent and only eat vegetables and fruit...with a little protein added in here and there.  

"He said, 'There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.  One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live."  
-Dalai Lama

Wow!  Doesn't that just speak to me.  Today is the day that I have, TODAY!  I find myself looking at the future a lot.  Especially right now when I am counting down the days till I can step on American soil again.  I am so excited and so ready to be back in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  But today is what I have and I need to work on loving and impacting today.  Yes there is still time to plan and think about what is to come, but I can't get so far ahead of myself that I forget to just be in the moment.  


1 Peter 5:7
" casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."

Oftentimes I forget to look to God.  I will admit that there are some days that I just let my thoughts towards him pass me by.  he knows what I need.  He knows how to help me see who I need to be.  I rely on Him to get me through.  So today I cast my anxieties...about the future, about tomorrow....I lay it down.