My Classroom, My Mission field

My classroom is my mission field. I knew going into this school year that it would be a challenging mission field.  I knew it would be hard work,  I knew there would be tears, I knew that I needed a big God to help me get through it.  I won't talk too much about my students in order to protect their privacy.  Honestly, this isn't about them, it's about me. It's about the lessons I have learned this year.  They are loving, funny, silly, and passionate.  The challenges they face are from no fault of their own.  Between cancer,  mental heath issues, autism, learning disabilities, ADHD, ADD and many more challenges that make up my beautiful mission field.  Regardless of the challenges within the classroom things this school year seemed to have gone by with every bump and scrape that I could ever imagine. Never in a million years did I think a school shooting would happen. Stoneman Douglas which is less than a mile away from my school has r...