by Lisa Maples | Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
In my 23 years of being a teacher, I can say that I rarely have taken days off during the school year for personal time. When I have to be away from school, it is usually due to sickness. My husband asked me, however, if I would like to travel with him to Destin,...
by Lisa Maples | Sep 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
God Has Answered Prayer. Have you ever prayed and waited then waited some more? I have been waiting alongside friends for five years to see God answer a prayer and it arrived today. A pastor whom I admire in California is quoted on Facebook today saying some...
by Lisa Maples | Sep 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
[youtube=http://youtu.be/yAD9CnKDI8A] Back in December of 2014, my oldest daughter’s school choir sang “Baba Yetu”. I accompanied the choir as the drums joined in with the piano and voices in a January performance of it. As a group of people share...
by Lisa Maples | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
The first week of school started on Monday of this past week. I loved seeing my students and getting back into the routine of school. Wednesday afternoon, I began to feel a strange pain in my abdomen. Doubling over and holding on to my desk at times, I got through...
by Lisa Maples | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I volunteered to be a camp counselor again this year at our church camp for Grades 2 – 5 in early August. Our church rents a campground in South Carolina each year with rustic cabins, a pool with diving boards where kids swim, a barn where kids ride horses and...
