Brianne Henry

I attend a women's Bible study through my church on Tuesday nights. At 8:30pm...I'm generally super tired by the time I'm home at 10:30! Anyway, we are currently studying Nehemiah: A Heart That Can Break by Kelly Minter (good stuff, by the way!). A couple weeks ago, we touched on obedience. In the book of Nehemiah, the wall is being rebuilt. The book begins with Nehemiah in Susa, which I have now learned is like a winter resort (maybe like a retirement neighborhood in Florida, if you will). Anyway, Nehemiah heard about the wall being destroyed and that his fellow Jews were in "great trouble and shame" (1:3). So, instead of saying "Oh, well that really stinks for them...I believe I'll continue enjoying my time here in Susa" he immediately becomes distraught for his people, weeping and mourning for their sake. Fast forward a little while, Nehemiah is back leading the people to rebuild the wall and he's met with lots of opposition - both intention...

I realized that I never posted pictures of where we are living now. Originally upon moving to KC, we lived in an apartment on the seminary campus. I posted pics of that precious, miniature apartment when we first got here :) Oh, and how did we get to five homes? Well, the "bat" house we rented in Ramsey, the house we bought in Ramsey, upstairs apartment on campus, downstairs apartment on campus and number 5 - the duplex. Wow! In December (I know that was 5 months ago!), we couldn't take the 700 square foot apartment anymore! Well, maybe I couldn't take it but friends, coming from a 1400 square foot 3-bedroom, 2 bath home...with a giant kitchen, garage, shed, yard....ohhhhhh, I still miss our house SO much! :( Anyway, I refused to cook and/or bake in our apartment because the small kitchen stressed me out so much. And if you know me, you know that's a big deal because I love to bake!!!! BUT, back to the point, we moved into a duplex about 15 minutes campus righ...

My last post was titled "Bummed." So this one is going to be the opposite of Bummed! Can we say stoked? Is that a little too 90's (maybe even 80's)? Most of you saw on my Facebook page last week that I got a job...now I didn't just get any teaching job. I feel like I got the most perfect position possible (but I haven't met the kids yet!). I will be teaching at Pleasant Ridge High School in Easton, Kansas. This is about a 40 minute drive for me, however there is quite a bit of road construction so I'm hoping a few minutes will come off once that's finished. The school is literally in a field. The middle school is a short walk through the parking lot (sound familiar?) and the elementary school is just right down the road. There's about 250 students in the high school. I will be teaching Computer Applications, Entrepreneurship, Digital Media and Desktop Publishing. I will also be sponsoring FBLA. I'm pretty pumped! There is another business tea...