Friday, March 18, 2011

Terminated, Fired, Canned!

I was "terminated" recently. Actually, before "they" could stamp that word on my career, I resigned. I will teach till the end of the school year, but my students don't know what's happened.
I started this post and was writing the reasons of termination and feelings associated with the experience, but it doesn't seem necessary to hash that over now. I want to move on.
I feel liberated, but I'm scared.
I feel free, but I don't know in which direction to go.
There's an exhileration that comes with being "let go" and I think, "What do I want to do now?" I have choices to make.
Do I stay? Do I move? Do I get the house ready to sell? Where do I move? Do I teach? (Not in Texas as the state is running dry.) If I move, do I teach there? Do I move, or stay, and do another job? What job would that be?
I'm on spring break but I haven't slept as well as I'd hoped/needed. I fall asleep thinking. I wake up thinking. I have no answers but I needed to write what's whirring in my brain anyway.
Please pray with me that I gain wisdom and clarity.