Over the last 3 months, teaching positions have materialized, only to fade away. Last week I was invited to Spokane, Washington for an interview with Northwest Christian Schools (for a 4th grade position). We drove up to Spokane on Wednesday and stayed with my old 4th grade teacher, who is retired now. I think the interview went well… it started off on a funny note, as the superintendent and I shook hands and then stared at our identical ties… I had worn a beige tie with John 3:16 on it which one of my third-grade students had given me in California. His was the same! So we had a good laugh about it and the interview started on a relaxed note. One of the most interesting things about it was when they told me I could have 10 minutes alone to take a boring social studies lesson and think up ways to make it more creative.
The next day J, the girls and I drove over to my folks’ place in rural Idaho and stayed for a few days.
Now as we’re back in Montana, I think over the school committee’s words to me as they concluded the interview: “We want to take a few days to think about it and pray. We don’t want to rush this decision. We’ll let you know by Monday.”
You know that feeling, when a momentous decision is hanging over you, but you still have no clue what’s going to happen? Especially when it’s somebody else’s choice, not yours…
It can be pretty scary, I’ve got to admit. But I am experiencing the adrenaline rush of waiting on the Lord, “more than watchmen wait for the morning.” (Psalm 130)
I bet watchmen in the old days strained their eyes for the morning, and the first glimpse of the breaking of the day. Even so, here we wait, knowing that our sovereign Lord is good and is in control; that as the British songwriter Stuart Townend wrote in the lyrics of In Christ Alone: ”Jesus commands my destiny.”
So, hopefully tomorrow will bring news of which path I take, as we approach this fork in our life road.
Grace and Peace,
Brian
