Random Thoughts

I've had some very interesting and stimulating conversations lately. Ones that are really making me pause for a moment and think. Here are some snip-its of those converstations

~ Talking with a group of fellow teachers at school who are in a leadership roles and aspire to move into administration. The conversation came up that if we were paid on a truly performance basis how different would some of us do our job. If every day your pay depended on a job well done for that individual day, would you work differently and if so, what would that look like?

~ In a group of wellness coordinators from various schools - how do you motivate someone to become healthy? (I think that is an answer for the ages - because I sure wish what someone had said to me years ago had motivated me - losing weight and getting healthy at 40 is a lot harder than at 20 or 30).

~ Talking with some fellow teachers with teenage kids - How do you motivate your children to stay on the straight and narrow and not succomb to peer pressure and all the traps that can catch them up. What do good parents do or NOT do that helps or hinders their children as they grow to hopefully become productive citizens.

~ Talking with James over a quiet dinner without the kids - what is our destination for our family and our children. What steps do we need to make to get there. (and as much as I wanted, the destination could not be Hawaii - but life in general).

~As James and I approach our 10th anniversary, what have we learned, what have we experienced and where do we want the next 10 years to take us.

~ Text messages from my friend telling me to check certain parts of the dog's anatomy to determine possible puppies. - Not really a question there, but interesting nonetheless.

~What to do in these trying times of very shaky economy, presidential change, and is moving to Canada really an option?

~That even at the end of a very hard and tiring day, walking up stairs and seeing my two children who have pushed every button I own at least 7 times each, cuddled together on the bed, with my oldest one reading a story to my youngest one, who has his head on her shoulder, is enough to make me cry, forget all about those buttons and be eternally grateful for all my wonderful blessings.

~That even when we don't know what to do, or we question things in our lives, that God HOLDS us completely. He completely covers us with His arms of love in such a way that NOTHING can every separate us from Him. NOTHING!