God Loves and Care-Theme Poem for this Blog

Sorry it has just been poems lately. Hopefully, I can get back to writing more recently about my life. Things have just been busy, which is good. Things are going the way God wants them to I feel like now or trying to get that way. I might update you later if I can without telling you everything that is going on in my life but for now and to keep up with my days here is a poem that is the Theme, I hope everyone that reads this gets, of this blog.

God Loves and Cares

Inspired by: a friend in 2012

God loves us like His Own

Children. He wants what is

Best for us. He guides us to

His Heart to show us who He

Really is. We are to be a image

Of that Love to others.

God cares for us like His Own

Children. Once we understand

His Love for us we start seeing

The way He cares for us. He will

Be with us through thick and thin.

He won’t eve leave us. He keeps

Us in His Arms while He cares

Enough to change us for His Glory.

He shows us He cares through

People and events.

God is calling us to do the same.

He is calling us to love and care for

The people around us. We don’t have

To go across the sea. If we love what

We do, if we love being a child of God,

Then we shouldn’t be scared to be

Different.

God wants us to show people Him

Wherever we are. That’s why He

Loved and Cared for us first but

We have to understand that beauty

So it can overflow from us. God has

Called us to fellow Him, so why aren’t

We doing that?  We have to let Him

Be in control of our lives.

Written By: Tiffney Wilson

Written On: January 2013

Deeper As It Goes

Water gets deeper as it

Goes in its lifetime. It

Starts out as a stream

But ends up in the ocean.

During the different stages,

It has different things in it.

When it starts out in just a

Clear stream, you can see through

It. You can see the rocks at the

Bottom and hear the soft noise.

It has no dirt in it and has it path

Made and planned for it. Nothing to

Bother it. It is shallow too.

Then that innocence stream

Runs into the lake. It goes every

Which way. There might be some

Few small fish and dirt to get in

The way but it is still easy to get

Through. Might bump into a fish

Here or there but no biggy because

You can always find your way

Back.

The that water in the lake goes

Into the ocean. There are bigger

Fish in there. There are even

Waves to throw you back and

Forth (James 1:5). It is so much

Bigger.

You think you will never find your

Way back to the stream ever again.

Somehow though you do whether

It you meet a new fish that knows

The ocean better then you or you

Will swim until you know what

Feels right for you. Life is like the

Cycle of water it gets deeper as it

Goes but it will always come back

Around home.

Written By: Tiffney Wilson

Different Groups of Children

Being a teacher's kid, I've always heard about how hard it is to teach a classroom full of students one way when they all learn different ways. I've learn about those different ways all my life too whether visual, sensory, auditory, or motor. It is strange now because even though I have been a teacher's kid all my life, I have not really seen that there could be groups of these kinds of children together as much as I do at my job now. It is neat and fun because I'm learning what to look for in different types of children and it makes me come up with new ideas to do with them, which I love to do on my own not by a lesson plan. I noticed this because my last group of children at my job loved science and hand ons things. They were very active and love to get messy so I pulled out some old science experiments like the cornstrach and water, baking soda and vinegar, and sensory bottles. Well, the group that I'm getting now, doesn't like the science so much I noticed yesterday but loves to paint and do anything artsy. My last group also needed to get outside or in the gym more but this group is pretty calm. It also got me to thinking that maybe what they like to do has something to do with their personality. Art is something calm and quite while science and PE is very active and you have to ask a lot of questions about science.  I noticed that the children with sensory problems are active and science lovers too. Sometimes I wonder if I wasn't that kid in elementary school but yet I was usual because I was the quite one. I loved science and being creative in art was okay but I would not do PE and wasn't that great at art when it came to drawing in art class. It just shows me I need to be more creative with these children and the world is at my hands because I have no lesson plans to go by and I love it. It would be neat if someday I could make like lesson plan books for each type of kid. It is strange how at my job the kids just seem to fit together in that group but yet in schools we have a hard time teaching them and I know the state is always involved with that with the testing and all. I know my school used to do that when I was in middle school but they sorted us by reading and math. That was in 6th grade. Maybe we need to sort the children in the fun things they like to do and then do the hard things with them because if you are creative enough there are was to get every subject into an art project, PE game, or science experiments. Social Studies is a hard one but I'll think on that one because that is a great subject too but even if they have to sit down just for one subject better then for all 4. I've noticed that not one of them cares about math, which fits me perfectly. :) I have always loved to be creative with lesson plans in college and I would help my mom with hers. It's just fun to see this and know that I have a way to chanallege these children into who they can be. I don't think I would mind being a homeschool teacher. Just a thought. We'll see when that time comes but for now I can do it at my job and love it even if I do have to spend some money. It is worth it to see the excitement on those childrens' faces when they feel or touch something strange or when I paint their hands. It has been funny because I can this idea through one of the children. He talked about science experiements. Let's do this and that. Just the other day he was talking about how he made a music insterment out of something we had in the classroom and I was like we could really make them out of things. It scares me too because I going to be one of those teachers like my mom who collects random things like pop bottles and shoeboxes because you can use them for anything in the classroom crafts or more. This could be fun if I really put my mind to it here and maybe make a difference not only for the children but for my job. Maybe starting a daycare or orphanage is the right thing for me to do. :) Just my random teacher's thoughts for the day. :) Encouragement for the teachers that start next week and already have started: You have a whole year to find out what your children like and work it off that way to change their lives. I only have 3 months to firgure out the children and to change or make a mark on the children's lives. My mom always told me teaching is a ministry and a spiecal kind at that and now as I get older, of course, I see she is right. I'm more of a guardian to these children but it works the same way or should. You all can do it! Don't let state laws get to in the way. ;) Knowing most of you, you are great friends which means you are great teachers too! :)

Starting my 3rd year in AR

Typically yesterday was when I started my 3rd year in AR. Craziness! Never thought I would last this long here in the state of AR but I've been blessed here more then I could think of. I got a GREAT job and amazing friends around me. I couldn't ask for anything better. My job and friends both make me who I can be and even though I might not agree with them at first after I think about it for awhile they are right and make sense. They just help me grow and see how I want to grow and see the person I really can be and that God wants me to be. It's been a crazy last year for me but I wouldn't change it for the world. Love where I am now and where I am heading. Dreams are coming true and I'm expienceing more of life like I wanted. Learning a lot and using it knowing that I have the ability to do what I do even when people say I can't. Learning some important life lessons like how to deal with the main stuff in life after changing jobs and what it means to have real friendships and to be open about your sinful self and that it is okay to be that way. We all are not perfect so everyone understands in some way, shape, or form. I would like to ask anyone that reads any of my entries to do a favor for me. I am going to start putting more poems I have written on here, more thoughts like I have been, more devos, and parts of stories that I came up with like maybe a start of a story. I do want your feedback on it whether though comments on here or Facebook. One of my dreams is to maybe write at least one book some day and I talked to a friend of mine and she said that putting it on a blog is the best way to start because the publisher would want to see if you have any readers. The numbers show I have a lot but I would also like some feedback espically on my poems for now since that is what is going to be mostly up for now. Short eassys for stories will come later maybe. Tell me what you think on anything I write on here. It is open to you even your thought on my random thoughts I get from my children or if you have another way to look at a devo. or verse/s let me know how you see it and I will take it into consideratioon. I wish I could write on here everyday because I always have a lot to write about but I don't want you guys to fall behind. :) I will try and write at least every other day or two. It might be in the mornings like this or late after work if I really have something on my mind then which I usually do something that God has shown me or that the children have shown me. I feel like I'm so far behind right now but I will keep it to a low so people can read this. I don't want to write too much where none of you come back. :) Please I can't stress enough if you feel like commenting please do. Thanks.

Blind, but Now I See

Blind, but Now I See

Inspired by: “Amazing Grace” and John 9:1-38

As a world, we are blind

To who God really is. We

Are looking for something

That isn’t here. That’s where

We mess up.

Have you ever though that

Your heart might be blind

Too? We have been born

Into a sinful world that has

Everything in it. Why is it that

Little children that have nothing

Can be so kind but yet us Christians

Are so mean and we have everything

We could think of?

We need to trust God and open

The eyes of our hearts. Just

Like the blind man did want

Jesus wanted him to do without

Know who He was at first. Without

Seeing Him, he trusted Jesus.

Jesus sent him to go wash in the

Pool and his eyes were opened. 

How many times have God said

“Go” to us and we stayed back?

Just think if you were truly blind.

You couldn’t see anything since

Birth but then one day Jesus

Changed that all for you. Wouldn’t

You go to the pool and take that

 chance to see.  He opened the eyes

of your heart to see the path He wants

you to take with Him.

It is a whole new story for you and it

Was for the blind man too. Jesus

Changes lives by just opening people’s

Eyes. He turned it around and put in color

Where it needed to make sense. Many

People are spiritually blinded and they

Don’t even know it. They think they are

Following the right path that Jesus

Has for them but they might be

Missing something along the way.

There comes a time when Jesus

Really does open your eyes. The

Time has to be just right like it

Had to be for Him. Right place,

Right people, and right situations.

Are you blind still or can you see

Now?

Written by: Tiffney Wilson

On the Other Side of Being Comfortable

I might go to the other side on being comfortable and that is that it is okay to be comfortable but we have to be careful that we don't get too comfortable. We can get comfortable in who God made us to be and to do and when we find that out it is fine to stay that but we can grow in little and big ways. We are all sinners so we can keep growing and that is the thing. A Christian's life is ever boring because we keep learning and growing whether threw the situations we go through or the Bible and new meaning it has for us every time we read it or the same verse. The Christian's life is always an adventure. You can be comfortable with who you are if you are for sure that is who God made you to be. You don't need to change who you are to step out of your zone. You can be who God made you and still grow spiritually. For me, I'm a small country girl and always will be. I love the country so that is something I look for in what I want to do in the future like live or a ranch or even where I work now is way out in the country for real and that is nice. Any way that I can get out into the country I need to do it because that is who God made me to be. Be comfortable with who God intended you to be and what He want you to do can be two different things or He can use your passions for His Will. I love the country and children. There is a lot I can do with that. Right now, my dream is a country ranch for children. That would be so neat. You just don't realize how much you miss who you really are when you are trying to be something and fit somewhere where you really don't fit. I need my teachers around me and no one else to share stories. I mean having different people around you are great but you don't need to try and fit in with a certain group. You need to be yourself and fine people like you that you can spend most of the time with and then spend other time with other people. I can also be a leader for that ranch and start one on my own if I push myself and have people around me that will push and encourage me too like have the same passions or at least understand. I always use to be encouraging and not scared to talk about really deep things but lately I have been and I haven't been encouraging like I should. I have been so selfish and self-centered and I hate that. I'm going to try and be more encouraging and change to who I really am because it is then that I'm really at peace. "You are at peace the most when you are who God meant for you to be" and I am doing what He wants me to do and right now that's what I'm doing or trying to do. Getting back into the grove of things.

Technology vs. Face to Face

I got up at 6:30 on a Saturday morning because it was tundering, lighting, and raining outside and my AC can't be on because it is broken so I was uncomfortable but then I thought God must have done one of His early wake up calls to get me to write what I have been thinking about this week or at least half of it. What I have been thinking about is a little strange but it makes sense in today's world. My mind has been on: Technology vs. Face to Face-Which is better and why? Of course face to face is because you can be real with the people you are around. To me, growing up when the age of Technology started to get big that is hard for me I will admit. I have always been the shy and quite type yet deep thinker and loves to write things out whatever way I can. I guess I didn't know how dependent I was on technology getting me through my friendship until I moved to AR and really cared about the people around me. I remember my first email address and how excited I was to get it. I remember my big brother setting it up for me because noone else knew anything about it and I was old enough to have one. That is when everything started and when I say everything I mean me not having real, authic friendships. Yeah, I remember I use to use it at first to keep in touch with family and really my big brother when he was away at college but then as the years went on it got worse for me and technology can more advance. I started emailing my friends at school even though I saw them everyday some I talked to some I didn't. Then I got a cell phone and that started the whole texting thing, and then Facebook came along with messager and that's where I am today plus this blog. Sadly, I guess I really never knew what it was like to have a real relationship when I think about it was on techy which I hate to admit but lately I have noticed the importance of having face to face talks whether with girlfriends or guyfriends. You can't see their reaction to what you say, some people might just blow what you say off because they don't know how you mean it, and other things like that. Funny when you think about it that way because we also get so caught up checking our email and time on Facebook that we really don't even "call" or "talk" have face to face with God anymore. I know I'm getting madder the more that I learn about the affects it can have on friendships. I love the one on one or small group talks with my friends and for some reason lately I love it even more maybe it's because I know they want to have those talks too or maybe because it is so meaningful when we do and I, if not both of us, learn something from face to face because we can go much deeper then texting. Having relationships with our friends could show what kind of relationship we have with God and do we just want a texting one or a deep one? It shows because we learn about him and can, hopefully, see him through one another by how we encourage and care for them by just being there when they need us the most. It would take a lot of typing on a little phone to really have a meaningful talk about God or your problems and why waste the time when we can see them most of the time. There are good times for technology for friends that are away and keeping them up to date about the important things in your life but other then that way bother with it. I know I'm saying this and I'm bad at it but one of my goals is to stop using technology so much and talk to my friends face to face to see how their day was or their trip. I might sound like I'm becoming old and I'm not I'm just becoming more real to my friends and towards God. We aren't real unless we share who we truly are to people and we can't do that over technology. That is what I need to change in my life or one of the big things at least because that is what I have been using and it hasn't worked. It has just confused and messed things up for everyone. Right now, technology is no good in my book and maybe I'm just going through a season but it is a good season because in a way I'm growing closer to God.