Vocation - the New Vacation.

August approaches rapidly. Tomorrow, the month will change, and it will smell of school supplies and new sneaker rubber. My senses are heightened. I am anticipating a lot of events. In two days, I will begin new teacher training for Knox County Schools. In one week, I will have my first official day at Karns Middle School, my new place of employment - my old stomping grounds. On August 15, students will pour through the doors like eager hide-and-seek hunters (ready or not). Hours of my summer were dedicated to seeking classroom decorations, deciding on and writing classroom procedures, and scouring craigslist for anything I may "need" to make my classroom pop. Excitement pulses through my body. With excitement, however, is also a foreboding sense of worry. New teacher. New employer. New career.  
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But ready - and right now, that's what matters most. I am ready to stand in front of 7th graders and be whatever I need to be to teach them whatever they need to know.

Vocation can be traced to the Latin vocare. Vocare - to call. More so, a work you are called to by God.
Frederick Buechner says, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." My gladness comes from creating change and making a difference. I imagine that my 7th graders, my co-workers, and my community have a few hungers that have yet to be satisfied.
Ready or not...