Be Inspired with Kelli Todtenhagen
Cornerstone Staging and Design
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Happy September ya’ll!
Well, we’ve made it through the summer, which I sure hope
offered some rest for some of you. School has begun, kids
are in class, and what looked like extra time in your day has
been replaced with sports, physicals, and paper after paper
needing to be read, signed and returned. Dinner talk consist
of sports, extra activities, and spring field trips.
As crazy as the first few weeks of school are, there is
something really exciting about it. It’s a feeling that’s hard
to describe. It’s a little like New Years, it’s a new beginning.
For parents and kids, it’s new schools, new schedules, new
teachers, new students, etc. It’s a time of making new friends,
and maybe even losing old friends.
For those who have already raised their children, I have no
doubt you still recognize this “new beginning feeling”. Some
of you even sit on your porch early in the morning with
your coffee to watch the kids walk to school or board their
school bus. You are either relieved that it’s not your child
or nostalgic remembering when it was. Either way, there is
something about this time of year.
This is a really good opportunity to pray for the kids in our
community, their teachers who are charged with the task of
teaching them, the school security and police officers that
protect them, and the bus drivers that drive them as if they
were their own. Let us not forget the lunch staff, office staff,
and the countless volunteers that we never even see. It takes
all these people and more to make every school day possible.
Because we are living in the time that we live in, any one of
these people are willing to give their lives to protect your
child and mine.
Our daughter Abbey is a first year 5th grade teacher. When I
visited her classroom, one of the very first things she showed
me was where she is to take her kids to hide “just in case!”
We may not be able to change people or laws, but we sure
can pray, and my hope is that we would cover those who
work in this field and the kids they care for in prayer. Not just
in our community, but our nation and our world.
Until next time,
Love one another… John 3:18
Kelli
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