God hit me between the eyes with a revelation yesterday, and my first response was to laugh at the obviousness of it. How often do we miss what God is showing us because we insist on being or doing something else? My day job as a classroom teacher is highly demanding. It demands energy, creativity, organization, communication, problem solving, flexibility, and quite honestly pieces of my soul. I spend six hours a day being needed by other humans, told what to do by people who never set foot in my classroom, some never in my school, and hope that something I have said or done has inspired or encouraged a young mind. The demands are many and the rewards rarely seen. To be honest, it leaves me tired. Coming home, then, at the end of the day to the demands of my own five kiddos, dinner planning, homework checking, lunch making, bedtime wrangling, leaves little space to sit in stillness with my own thoughts. I want time to slow down and m...