It was a late afternoon when I got the email. It read, "Christian School Seeking Teacher." My heart leaped with curiosity. Whhhaat? Lord? I was sitting at a McDonalds table, a rest stop midway between Ozark and Searcy. Lord. Really? This is weird...this meets everything you've been telling me. I scoured the email and reread it twice and the eligibility requirements three times. Lord, this is crazy! Is this you? Hope began to build and then a sudden urgency welled within me to get to the bottom of this. How in the world did a small Kansas City school find our small campus in Ozark? I hopped in my truck with a lot to ponder. 


Trying to keep myself from over thinking things I casually drove home and listened to music. Yet the information occasionally came to mind. "Lead our Elementary program. If you do not yet possess this degree, school starts between July and September with an option to earn a Master's degree."   I concluded during the drive that if the Lord wanted that position to be my job, it would be so. Lord, it meets everything and more as to what you've been speaking to me. It meets everything. Is this you? It really seems like it. Maybe my sill notion about September was legitimately something. 


Well, after much questioning the Lord and seeking his guidance I had every assurance that it was where I was to be. 

Lord, if they can't change this one thing on the contract, then I will take that as a sign that this is not your will. The contract was altered in my favor. 

Lord, if the institute will not accept me because I do not have their prerequisite of holding a college degree, then I will take that as a sign that I am not to pursue this anymore. The institute accepted me.

Lord???

Looking out my bedroom window, into the rolling hills and blue sky I reasoned:

  1. Montessori education is amazing. Its method nearly matches to a tee what I have dreamt for my future children's camp. 
  2. The school is beautiful. 
  3. The staff welcoming, too good to be true.
  4. My classroom has windows! Practically ceiling to wall windows! [Greatly important to me.]
  5. I would be free, even encouraged, to incorporate scripture and prayer with the children. 
  6. All the material...it looks like a child's dream school! 
  7. Why wouldn't I take this job? I would have the opportunity to teach children about YOU! 
  8. I would be living my desire to work with children.
  9. I would be trained for this, sponsored to learn everything I've wanted to learn concerning the development of a child. 

Thus, I took the job confident it was the Lord's will. 


 It is only described as a God thing. How on Earth did a small school in Missouri find me in a little town of Arkansas? It was the Lord without a doubt.  Even when I was unaware, the Lord was directing my steps. He was directing my employer as she listened to the Lord in starting a Montessori school. Every step we took, whether we knew it then or not, was positioned and aligned for such a time as this. And we, for the most part were unaware. It's not until the "ah-ha" moment or when the pause of "is this really you God?" that occurs that we really begin to see how the Lord has been preparing us for the position or task ahead of us. 


It was not without major hardship however that I actually completed the training in Dallas. But that's another story for another time.