Thanks Betsy!
Here are the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
1.) What experience or situation in your world makes you feel like a hypocrite? How do you handle it?
Well I consider myself a feminist (an opinion not everyone shares as I am not pro-choice) and the church I go to which I love in almost every aspect does not believe that women can be ordained as official leaders in the church. I question whether it is okay for me to go there and worship with them and serve when they don't believe I could ever be an elder. I can count the money, sing the songs, create the lessons for the kids, teach the kids, speak, but not make the final decision. It ultimately means that I do someones bidding who wouldn't consider the opinion of a woman. I cried about it. I talked to my pastor. He knows where I stand. I have taken a really hard look at the scriptures and know that this position is wrong. Christian and I prayed about it and feel like we need to stay there. We won't join officially, but we still tithe there.
I guess I handle it by praying about it and knowing that God wants me where He wants me. I also feel like it is me giving grace to the bride of Christ that Christ loves so much even if it has major flaws.
2.) If you had to say there was a "bottom line" to motivating people, what does it involve?
The bottom line to motivating people is knowing the people. Some of my kids are motivated by hating me. They like to feel like they are sticking it to me when they get good grades. Some kids need to know I am rooting for them. Some kids need a kick in the ass. If you don't know the people you cannot motivate them. Most adults don't put themselves in a position where they are not at least a little motivated. They do things becuase they want to or they say they have to (motivated by consequences of some sort.) No one is expected to motivate an adult unless the adult wants to be motivated. Students are different. You have to know them.
3.) If you were to design a chess set, what would it (the pieces, the board) look like?
I think I would do an Atlanta chess board. There are those sweet king and queen buildings on the way to Alpharetta on 400 and maybe the bank of america building as the knights. Some of the sweet hotels as the rest. then the board could look like the connector and maybe some marta busses in there.
4.) If Colt were a real boy, tell me about him.
He would be a boy that loves hugs and sitting next to people and his favorite thing would be staying in bed on saturday morning with us. He would be a boy of horrible timing, always having to pee when there is no available bathroom. He wouldn't say a whole lot and when he would, everyone would say "what the heck" then he would go back to what he was doing. Some people would think my boy was so weird, but oddly charming.
5.) Think about yourself at age 19. In what ways have you exceeded your expectations since then?
Nineteen, well I was sure I wanted to do mission work, and I am. I have definitely exceeded expectations as far as that goes. I mean, it's not in a hut that I live in but I think I am serving the people God has called me to well. I didn't think I ever could have imagined how much I care about my students and how my heart has been changed by their needs. I may have been poor, but I had it so so good. At nineteen I thought I was going to be a speech coach who taught to get payed. I have become a teacher who coaches debate because it is what my kids really want and has nothing to do with me being good at, or glorified by it. (In fact I don't think I am very good at it.) I remember missionaries explaining how God gave them a little piece of the love he had for the place he put them, and I love this city. I could not imagine living anywhere else. Anywhere else will never measure up. I also thought now would be the time in my life I would be getting married, and since I have been married for almost four years now, I guess that expectation has been exceeded.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
1.) What experience or situation in your world makes you feel like a hypocrite? How do you handle it?
Well I consider myself a feminist (an opinion not everyone shares as I am not pro-choice) and the church I go to which I love in almost every aspect does not believe that women can be ordained as official leaders in the church. I question whether it is okay for me to go there and worship with them and serve when they don't believe I could ever be an elder. I can count the money, sing the songs, create the lessons for the kids, teach the kids, speak, but not make the final decision. It ultimately means that I do someones bidding who wouldn't consider the opinion of a woman. I cried about it. I talked to my pastor. He knows where I stand. I have taken a really hard look at the scriptures and know that this position is wrong. Christian and I prayed about it and feel like we need to stay there. We won't join officially, but we still tithe there.
I guess I handle it by praying about it and knowing that God wants me where He wants me. I also feel like it is me giving grace to the bride of Christ that Christ loves so much even if it has major flaws.
2.) If you had to say there was a "bottom line" to motivating people, what does it involve?
The bottom line to motivating people is knowing the people. Some of my kids are motivated by hating me. They like to feel like they are sticking it to me when they get good grades. Some kids need to know I am rooting for them. Some kids need a kick in the ass. If you don't know the people you cannot motivate them. Most adults don't put themselves in a position where they are not at least a little motivated. They do things becuase they want to or they say they have to (motivated by consequences of some sort.) No one is expected to motivate an adult unless the adult wants to be motivated. Students are different. You have to know them.
3.) If you were to design a chess set, what would it (the pieces, the board) look like?
I think I would do an Atlanta chess board. There are those sweet king and queen buildings on the way to Alpharetta on 400 and maybe the bank of america building as the knights. Some of the sweet hotels as the rest. then the board could look like the connector and maybe some marta busses in there.
4.) If Colt were a real boy, tell me about him.
He would be a boy that loves hugs and sitting next to people and his favorite thing would be staying in bed on saturday morning with us. He would be a boy of horrible timing, always having to pee when there is no available bathroom. He wouldn't say a whole lot and when he would, everyone would say "what the heck" then he would go back to what he was doing. Some people would think my boy was so weird, but oddly charming.
5.) Think about yourself at age 19. In what ways have you exceeded your expectations since then?
Nineteen, well I was sure I wanted to do mission work, and I am. I have definitely exceeded expectations as far as that goes. I mean, it's not in a hut that I live in but I think I am serving the people God has called me to well. I didn't think I ever could have imagined how much I care about my students and how my heart has been changed by their needs. I may have been poor, but I had it so so good. At nineteen I thought I was going to be a speech coach who taught to get payed. I have become a teacher who coaches debate because it is what my kids really want and has nothing to do with me being good at, or glorified by it. (In fact I don't think I am very good at it.) I remember missionaries explaining how God gave them a little piece of the love he had for the place he put them, and I love this city. I could not imagine living anywhere else. Anywhere else will never measure up. I also thought now would be the time in my life I would be getting married, and since I have been married for almost four years now, I guess that expectation has been exceeded.