A Servant's Heart

I got an email this morning from a school in South Dakota.  Not just any school.  It is called the Red Cloud Indian School.  RCIS is right outside of the Pine Ridge reservation and serves the Lakota Sioux population.  You can volunteer to be a teacher there.  These teachers get a small stipend, room and board paid for, along with full health care and an option to defer my student loans.  THIS is the job I would love to have.

After I picked up my dad after school, we got in a discussion about this opportunity.  Basically he said that I needed to decide where my heart lies- in a public school setting or in a volunteer place like this where I don't get paid.  Ever since I was a kid, I have wanted to combine my faith and love of children.  Now, I could finally have an opportunity to do this.  Its never been about the money for me with any job I've ever had.  Working for the Parks Department, being a nanny and working at a camp have allowed me to learn how to have a servant's heart.  My parents want me to only apply to teaching jobs in the area when I graduate.  My heart doesn't belong here anymore.  It wants to have the opportunity to grow in a different setting.

When I wasn't offered a job through Teach for America, I knew it was for a reason.  Everything always happens for a reason, God's reason.  This is my chance to have a servant's heart once again and to feel that passion that I've been longing for.