My dear one,
Thankful to be feeling back to normal after a very rough Sunday (either food poisoning or a stomach bug). Good friends stopped by after church to supply me with Jello, ginger ale, and apple juice. By some miracle, I had regained enough strength by Monday morning to fulfill my teaching responsibilities! And on this first day of March I enjoyed a beautiful morning walk before work.
I had a certain opera tune on repeat in my head (the tutti finale from Act I of Rossini's La Cenerentola) this evening, so I turned on FoxNews on my computer (I don't own a TV) to see what Super Tuesday election results were in yet. The news proved discouraging enough to turn off the news and turn to my Bach Brandenburg Concerto playlist. That will "cleanse the palate" of opera tunes and political harangue...
I've been worrying about one of my students lately. She refuses to show any emotion in her countenance, conversation, or musical performance. She is uncomfortable in her own skin, keeping everyone except her sisters at arms' length. She treats me like I'm poison... or maybe just dirt... no matter how much extra care and support and encouragement I give her. And I'm with her for an average of 6 hours a week, so it's taking a lot of special grace from the Lord to keep my heart in the right place! Most of all, I'm concerned for her spiritual condition. She professes to know Christ as Saviour, but she and her family show many symptoms of a certain cultish segment of fundamentalism known for its hypocrisy, fraud, abuse and misogyny. I've asked counsel from several of my colleagues, but most of all I need the same wisdom that Solomon found from the Lord! "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him" (James 1:5). [And honestly, one very clear sign of the Lord's help came the very moment I found myself distracted from the writing of this paragraph -- when I drifted over to my Facebook newsfeed, a friend had just posted a very pertinent article from a wise pastor!]
Other than that, my main focus these days is a major statewide event coming up in five weeks. I will be so thankful when my term as president of this organization is completed this summer! I don't think I have an administrative bone in my body... But this is my second year at this, so hopefully I've learned something that can help make this event even more successful than the last!
I could only wish you were here to chat with me, share a smile, and learn how much I've prayed for you.
Until then, my dear one...
Your Evenstar
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