carterac99Mar 144 minDevil's Gone and Done It Again...What are you fearful of in the midst of this pandemic? What are you most afraid of losing?
carterac99Sep 14, 20183 minFrom Ashes to PraiseI cried myself to sleep last night. Ugly cried. That kind of crying where you can’t breathe through your nose anymore and you wake up wit...
carterac99Oct 10, 20173 minIn the Face of FearIn Lubbock, the big small town in the panhandle of Texas, gentlemen still say “yes ma’am” and women still wear pearls to church. In Lubbo...
carterac99Sep 26, 20172 minA Love Like ThatWhen my kids come home from school, they say, “Hi mom! How was your day?” in this super kind but sort of tired, it's-been-a-long-day voic...
carterac99Sep 9, 201714 minJames 3I was twenty-three and teaching a room full of seniors. I was scarcely their elder and struggling to maintain control. I’m a bossy and st...
carterac99Jun 13, 20171 minMirror PrayersBefore you judge me, I want to start with the announcement that this is my first mirror selfie ever. I swear. Well, other than the ones I...
carterac99Mar 13, 20176 minFamily JewelsI do not want to write this. Confessing it to myself resulted in cold sweats and a punch in the gut, but sharing it with others is mortif...
carterac99Dec 16, 20166 minForgive Me, Father, For I Have SinnedHow long has it been since you read To Kill a Mockingbird? So dadgum good. One of my favorite scenes was Scout’s first day of school. Mis...
carterac99Oct 25, 20164 minFearless AudacityMy kids were seven and nine. Dance on Tuesdays and Thursdays, church on Wednesdays, and baseball six days a week. (What’s that about anyw...
carterac99Oct 5, 20163 minLies, Lies, LiesI have to jump through every single hoop to be valuable and worthy. I’m not as good of a teacher as.... I am failing. I need to do more. ...
carterac99Sep 19, 20163 minLearning from EliasElias was a young boy in the foster system, taken away from his mother and placed into three temporary foster homes before settling in, a...
carterac99Aug 19, 20164 minYou Can't Do ItConsider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces persevera...
carterac99Jul 23, 20165 minDear Trump Jr., I Respectfully DisagreeAt the recent Republican convention, Donald Trump Jr. made his, and presumably his father's, stance on public education quite clear. He p...
carterac99Jul 6, 20168 minShepherd Your FlockSo this one’s probably going to get me into quite a bit of trouble. I don’t like trouble. And I really don’t like to be IN it. But I’m fe...
carterac99May 27, 20163 minTo My StudentsI've been preaching at you for nine months now, so I predict that more life lessons would simply result in some eye rolling, possibly eve...
carterac99May 3, 20164 minFour Weeks Is EnoughEnglish I; room 252; April 29; Anytown, USA “Miss, I thought chapter eleven was super random. Why did we need to read for a whole chapter...
carterac99Mar 21, 20165 minSo Apparently I Have ShameI picked up the book The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown, fully intent on breaking my cycle of perfectionism, preferably by the end ...