Being a Leader

        I titled this "Being a Leader" because I was planning on talking about how I feel like a leader and how should be a leader with my new position at work but I'm going to talk about a little bit more. Today I really think God opened my eyes all around the room I was in and past and present and future. All three of them. When you become what God made you to be things just roll together. I have really missed the classroom setting and being the lead teacher. I'm loving it so much.
         I love everything about it and now I know the kind of settings and working I want for sure for the future. As a leader, God really as given me everything that my heart desired for my career.  I don't know what I was thinking when I went into the job field right after college. The college I went to really got me ready for a higher position then an assistant teacher or just a floater. It got me ready for a lead teacher or higher for an admin. position. That is one thing that I thought a lot about today during work was where I worked during college.
          I went to College of the Ozarks in Branson, MO and it is a work for pay college. For the four years I was there, I worked in the Child Development Center and loved it. Now I am at a place where I feel like I'm there at that center again only it is in AR. I'm the lead teacher and get to make the classroom look like anyway I want it. I get to plan the lesson plans and then do them with the children. This place actually have lesson plans and make you turn them in a week before. I have 3 assistant teachers but you couldn't tell that because we all work so well together. They are easygoing and fun to be around. The children love them too.
          While I was thinking about all of these things, the past and the present, and what God has done for me this past year and who I really am. I got to thinking about something really important. That was: " If God can answer these desires of my heart, while I prayer and whispered to Him, then how many more desires can He really answer?"  I remember thinking back when I was at my other job: how I wanted to plan things and have people go along with me, how I wanted to have a room to do things with, and where people would actually listen to me and not complain about what I was doing or trying to do. Now I got that and I do love it.
           God answered all of those thoughts and prayers. I'm having too much fun some days but that is good because I don't remember the last time I was this happy. I really did have a flashback to college days and I loved them. It showed me that there are some places out there that have what I want to work with and in but I really have to research and wait for that place like I did this one. Excuse my French, but I went through Hell, just to get to where I am today. It is funny too because I did apply where I am today but they didn't have room for me when I applied the first time and now this time they did. That is another sign that God wanted me to have this job really bad.
             I just hope that this year I can see more things in my life as clear as I see my job now and before. I still have other desires on my heart that I want to be answered but I know and early believe that God will answer them in His Time. Just like He did with my job and career. I was also thinking about how many years I stayed at my college's center and it was 4 years and then I graduated. I would have stayed more if I could have. That gives me hope that maybe if the job I'm at now is almost like the one at college, maybe I will stay here that long or longer, which will be a first for me here in AR.
            I am really, really blessed to have the job that I do now and it is looking good for me if the future if I want to move up and leave the children behind, yet I don't know, we just have to see what other things life bring my way and see if my money situation fits those things. It is hard to explain totally if you weren't there with me but I just had a joyous and peaceful feeling that made me smile today.
           Oddly enough, my FFA advisor was right about me being a leader. I just have different ways of showing it, then most people that are leaders. I would say that I am a quite and kind leader. You know that verse that talks about a gentle spirit and let that be what people see in you. I really think that is how I am a leader. People see it through my actions and my skills more then my words. People might not think of lead teachers at daycares or preschools as leaders but we are. We are depended on by a lot of people (parents and children) and we have a lot of things to do. We are the leaders to the future leaders of the world.