Everyday, every morning, I walk into my Year 7 classroom and my heart is lifted when I say 3 little words... "Good morning everyone!"

They all immediately yell at me in their loudest voices, sometimes nearly bowling me over  "GOOD MORNING MISS CORINNE!!!"

It makes my day.  I am immediately cheered up, picked up, and lifted....to be honest, I need it most days.

It got me thinking...most of the time, in the last few months especially, I haven't been enjoying those little things... I have been so focused on the future and what is going to happen that I have been completely missing the present.   So many times I have looked forward to "when things are better" or "once this is over" or "once I can have my Starbucks coffee..." that I have missed so so so many things here.  It actually makes me sad to think about.

These last months I have much to be thankful for.  Faithful friends who have prayed, and a faithful God who hasn't left me.

God says in Matthew 6:34:


"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"

God says, What are you doing!!!!? Don't BOTHER worrying about tomorrow, don't you have ENOUGH for today?  ...... He is right....

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Yesterday on my way home I saw a woman who had just been hit by a car or CNG or something....she was laying just off to the side of the road in the gutter, while her son, perhaps around 8 or 9 years old was screaming and screaming next to her....no one stopped, no one turned their heads.....no one shuttered....

We have no IDEA what is going to happen to us, not a clue, let's face it...we have enough to worry about with today don't we?   I know I have heaven to look forward to, and that is the one thing that God promises us, that there will come a day, when each and every one of us will go to one of two places, heaven, or hell.  I don't know what will happen tomorrow, or even 5 minutes from now... someone could call me and I could proceed to spill my well brewed coffee all over this MAC and my post could end here, ...but we do know one thing.... God has reserved a place for us in heaven....

So then I leave you with this for now:

John 14: 1-3.. Jesus says:


"Let not your heart be troubled:  you believe in God, and believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also"


Thank you for your prayers,

Cori