Praise the Lord for Options!

Since we last talked things have been rumbling in Bresslerland. Last Thursday I told God that I needed a breakthrough as the present circumstances in my job were just too much to bear. It's not that I hate teaching, rather I love being around junior highers and I love collaborating with professional teachers. However, the blatant disrespect I've been blasted with this fall has been too much for my tender heart to handle, as has being alone and isolated with little to no collaboration. So I asked my former colleagues at CHA to pray, and I asked God to make a change.

To make a looooooong story short, here's what's brewing. I want to be a school counselor. I've been thinking about it for a year, ever since becoming friends with Tina, the counselor at CHA. She's fabulous and I just liked her so much, and liked what I saw her position to be. There's a college down here, Florida Gulf Coast University, only about 5 years old, that offers a private school-quality education at public university prices, and it's where our church meets. I think I'm going to start their masters program in school counseling in January and will take just less than two years.

So in the meantime, do I stay where I'm at? Do I pursue this other math position I just learned about on Friday at the school down the street from our house (great school, great principal, great collaborative team, great kids)? Do I take a break from teaching (and its great vacations) and pursue an offer I received today to work in the construction business doing documentation and assisting in some contracting work?

Lots of options. Thank you deeply, friends and family, for your support and prayers. I finally have hope, which, if you don't have it, you forget how blissful it can be. Now pray for clarity in decision making.