pursuing LOVE...and JOY...and WHOLEHEARTEDNESS!

Well, after four years away from school counseling, I have decided to return. Yes, I'm keeping my private practice in counseling. I will be reducing the number of clients that I see on a weekly basis in order to work 20 hours a week as a school counselor at Rockford Christian Elementary School. This comes in the midst of conversations that I have been having with God about desire. In fact, pursuing this position kind of started those conversations. My good friend Mackenzie, who works in the business office at RCS, told me about the position innocently enough. She wanted me to have the information about the position in case I had any counselor friends who might be interested in applying. What neither she nor I could have known, was how desire would stir in my heart as soon as she started to describe it to me. There are things that I have come to absolutely love in private practice counseling. I love being my own boss, setting my own hours and having complete freedom over

I have been staying busy this summer and not telling you very much here. Lots of fun and exciting things have happened. There have also been moments where my heart has felt heavy and life has felt challenging. Something fun was when I saw two foxes hanging out at a house just around the corner from me. They were sitting together at the end of the driveway until one had an itch and needed the brick wall nearby to scratch it. Karyn says that one is called Charlie and he is a regular around our neighborhoods. I think this is true because Ben and I saw him again in another yard when we were walking home from watching fireworks on the 4th of July. We had an amazing weekend in June at Camp Pathfinder in Algonquin Park with my extended family on my mom's side. We slept in platform tents and Ben and I paddled around the island, without tipping over, in a wood and canvas canoe. My cousin Warren showed us around his wood shop and explained how they make and maintain the canoes th