The Morning Commute

As a student-teacher/intern in the local Masters of Arts in Teaching Program, I am required to student teach four days a week and attend classes at the university one day a week. I have three rotations in three different public secondary school Spanish classrooms. I am going to be the best Spanish teacher in order to do so with excellence and glorify Yahweh! Praise Him!

Well, anyway, my first two rotations were in the town in which I live, which was awesome because I had to be there at 8:00 a.m. My third rotation is in a town 30-40 minutes away (depending on traffic), however, and I have a very long drive every morning and evening.

I LOVE the morning commute! Yahweh is SO awesome to give it to me. I know, I know, how many people say that? But I really, REALLY do! It helps that I don't have to be at the school in the town far away until 8:30 a. m. given that school doesn't start for the students until 8:55. Really, I actually don't have to leave as early as I did going to school in my own town! But that's not the best part (though those extra 15 minutes of sleep ARE wonderful things for which to be grateful...and I AM grateful!). The best part is that I have 30-40 WHOLE MINUTES just alone with Yahweh! It is the perfect time to pray in tongues, listen to the local Christian radio station (when the songs are uplifting ones...not the "I'm a sinful, sinful worm and thus should be sad ones), and just be with Him! Even the times when the radio station plays the sad songs, I can turn it off and pray in tongues! And there is NO chance to be distracted (ie, "let me just check my email" or "let me watch this ONE TV show" or, "let me call my friend"). I know I should not ever be distracted when I should be spending time with Yahweh, and I'm not saying I never spend time with Him outside the commute time, but I really love this added time. PLUS, I show up to school happy, joyful, and full of Yahweh! It's hard to stop singing when I get there!

So, praise Yahweh for the morning commute! Amen! Glory! HalleluYah!