Whether Hilger has been your home for many years or this is your first time walking its halls, this year is going to hold new adventure for students and teachers alike. This is our new mission as God's people this year: to love others well during this time. For me this means teaching your children literature, grammar, and composition with excellence as usual, cleaning the classroom well, offering more hand sanitizer, protecting the rights of the mask wearers and stewarding the non-mask wearers in the classroom well, and exuding, as best I can, the love and peace of Christ in both my classroom and the halls of Hilger.
Sometimes love and peace come in the form of humor (we'll try our best to keep things light in the classroom!) and sometimes it just means slowing down and remembering Who we serve (we'll be encouraging each other to do this with every page we turn and every sentence we write). For the most part it means doing what Hilger teachers have done all along, passing on the knowledge and wisdom of our Lord, as best we can, to God's glory and for the betterment of our students.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor. 10:31
If you've read any of my other posts about what we study and why, you can see that a huge theme of my selections for reading is, "Adventure" and more specifically, "the Adventure of being a Christian." This is just another time in all of our lives where we get to put our words in action. Do I really believe that the Christian life is an adventure lived before our Savior? Do I really believe the adventure is worth it? Do I really believe in all that sacrifice and service talk? YES. And though God knows I don't do it anywhere near perfectly at any point, I will do my best to model it for your children this year, whatever the circumstances.
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and [c]conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption [d]through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:9-14
Welcome! Blessings in the Lord! I am excited to be teaching with you this year!
--Olivia Oster
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