Opinion
You Need an Ear
I just wanted people to know that whatever you’re going through, others are or have been going through what you’ve been going through.
Friendship’s Faithful Wounds
I have a friend named Christi. We met in 2004, and she is the person I can shoot a text to when I’m unreasonably angry, when I’m sad for no tangible reason, when I’m frustrated or embarrassed, when I’m terrified and when I feel like my faith is growing cold. She is the person who can handle my ungodly feelings, my skewed viewpoints, my darkest attitudes, my strongest, misguided opinions. I can say anything to her that has crossed my mind without fear of judgment, without bracing for a lecture, without worrying about how she will feel about me after she hears what’s really going on in my heart.
School Choice is Ideal
Teachers are among the hardest- working people for the lowest possible pay. My late father was a teacher, my sister is a teacher, my mom is a retired teacher, and I have taught both Sunday school and youth nights. My mom used to joke that once she became a teacher, every pen she grabbed was a red pen. It is by no means an easy profession. If you think it’s easy, let me see you give up just about all of your free time to kids who may either resent you or forget you in a few years. This is especially true if you live in a bigger city.