New from WA State, looking to share and/or find my God match.

Hi. I love to teach as it is my calling, learn about other people, and yes, I would like to meet my mate.

Hi welcome to the fellowship here at CC! There's lots of fun topics in the Singles Forum and a good way to meet people is by joining in the convos. I wish you the best in finding your God-mate soon. Lovely to have you here Ballaurena, God bless & keep you🙏🌹

"A close relationship with our Lord often leads to the unexpected."

That's a pretty name Ballaurena.
Do you also dance?

Welcome!

hello , Good to have you on here .I live to be edified and also edify by the word of God . I hope I can learn from you . am single also ,that's if u female and like brownies ..lol God bless

Yes actually. I recently started teaching a children's ballet class and take swing dance lessons myself.

That's an an interesting skill set and takes a LOT of training. I am familiar with that from attending ballet performances. It's amazing how much balance, muscular control and memorization goes into the choreography.
What's the story behind teaching your new class?

Thanks for asking and for recognizing the hard work. Though really, I find my current position to be almost play. I mean who gets paid to share one of their favorite hobbies with some adorable new friends?

Actually I am a state certified teacher to teach in the sciences, but God and I do our own thing with my credentials. About a year ago, my roommate and I moved in with my Mom both to help her out and because we had an abrupt need for some housing and it was the door God opened (pretty literally there). After getting her more stable, I have been wanting to get back into teaching but either it wasn't the right time and place, or the public schools in blue state Washington are just going to find ways to discriminate against real Christians. What I know is that, that door didn't open. Trying to connect with my healthy desires, though, (something God has been emphasizing) I searched the job classifieds for ideas, got intrigued when a ballet school was hiring for the beloved hobby I learned as a kid, so I applied. They liked me but didn't feel I was the right fit for their program.

With ballet now on my radar for teaching, though, God seemed to put me at the right place and time when a position that better fit me opened up at my health club just a few weeks later. In fact, I was put in a position to hear about it before they had even offered it in-house. And it even turned out that my science background was helpful since they wanted someone familiar with anatomy. Its not many hours, but it has potential to grow, and I don't want too many right now anyway.

Mark Twain said, "What work I have done I have done because it has been play. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind.

We can't always do what we enjoy most, but it sure is nice when we are given those opportunities.

I appreciate you sharing that personal part of your life. It sounds surprisingly familiar. I know of a man who followed a similar path.

Isn't it amazing how the Lord designed us? We are privileged to know the One Who established the sciences, provided knowledge about the world, our own design, and how it applies to us.

When I was 5 or 6 we moved to Washington for a short time. My Mom couldn't adapt to the weather and wanted to move back to West Virginia .

It sounds like the left coast bias doesn't just include California. My state is pretty conservative, but I think public education across the country has continued to become more and more biased against Christianity since it's origins. There are a lot of decent teachers throughout, but their hands are tied when it comes to teaching from anything Biblical or outside of the designated curriculum.

Have a good day!

"Isn't it amazing how the Lord designed us? We are privileged to know the One Who established the sciences, provided knowledge about the world, our own design, and how it applies to us."

It is indeed. There are two reasons I went into biology. I both wanted to learn the mechanical designs of the master engineer, and I wanted to understand what makes people who they are. On the latter of those I have since come to understand that the second of those two isn't from the physical, but I have consequently studied the body enough to know how unsubstantiated it is to think otherwise; I can now wrap my mind around the chemistry and physics of everything from how a muscle works to the intricate dances of flow that allow the kidneys to get just the right balance of excretion and reservation of different substances. But in all my studies of the brain and neurologic system there was nothing that could logically or intuitively bridge chemical and electrical impulses over to consciousness other than an assumption that it must work because we are conscious.

"When I was 5 or 6 we moved to Washington for a short time. My Mom couldn't adapt to the weather and wanted to move back to West Virginia"

Couldn't take the weather, huh? Presuming you all went to the population-heavy west side, I am guessing she couldn't take the gloom, since having moved to the east side, I personally miss the mild temps that meant I could almost always go outside without fear of snow or the triple digits.

"It sounds like the left coast bias doesn't just include California. My state is pretty conservative, but I think public education across the country has continued to become more and more biased against Christianity since it's origins. There are a lot of decent teachers throughout, but their hands are tied when it comes to teaching from anything Biblical or outside of the designated curriculum."

Indeed, the left coast includes CA, OR, and WA. And one really sad thing about the continued increase in the bias against Christians is that our public education system was invented to make sure everyone could read the Bible. How far we have fallen!

Thank you for recognizing the decent teachers. I have given up traditional social media, and one of my many difficulties there was the Christians and conservatives there that would rail against teachers, ignoring the fact that there are many of us in their same camp, so we were getting attacked from both sides. And even if the state won't hire us to teach their kids, it doesn't mean we cease to be teachers - Teacher is my identity and the core of my being as designed by God.