50th Post

So, it has taken me about a year and a half to get here, but this right here is my 50th post.
And what a great way to celebrate it by saying that I have successfully completed my first practicum for teaching! Yay!
It was a great school, and it was cool to be a part of their family for those short 6 weeks, but strangely enough, I am ready to go back to some of the theory of teaching before I crack into the 2nd practicum.
I feel that it is just really good to get a solid foundation of theory before I go and apply it all. I do agree that sometimes it is good to 'sink or swim', but on many occasions, I feel, having some sort of foundation is great!
I guess it is the same with life - and I think most of life gets the balance quite good with the whole sink or swim, or foundation of theory-ness.
Being a Christian, we are called to stand on the solid foundation - the rock - Jesus Christ. And as long as we have that foundation, we are pretty much good to go with anything. Jesus knows exactly when we need to just dive in, or step off like Indiana Jones in his third movie - to just take that one step of faith that is so scary, but so necessary if we are to ever succeed in life. And other times, Jesus just lets us take a bit of a step back to understand and see where he is going to take us and let us simmer and percolate in that awesome-ness and wonderful-ness that is where he will take us.
Theory is good, practice is too, but the right mix just makes it perfect.