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Hi! My name is Rebekah Griesmyer and I currently
live in Akron, Ohio. My husband just graduated from the University of Akron law
school in May so we are looking forward to a move to D.C. in the near future. This
is my last semester of my Master’s of Education Teaching and Leadership degree
program. I’m very excited!!! In this
course, I would like to learn how to use new technology so that it can be used
to support and enhance learning and teaching. My current roles are that of a stay at home
Mom, a loving spouse, and a facilitator of learning to my six children. Yep, I home
school them. By profession, I am a children’s theatre director and choreographer.
I teach musical theater, drama, and dance. My hobbies include reading, spending
time with my family, teaching/directing, and managing our finances. If my life
were a movie, I’d like Julianne Hough to play me. She is a down to earth, triple
threat: singer, dancer, and actor who comes from a very religious and close
family. She is small, blonde, and petite like me! And gorgeous! Not like me! If I were ever interesting enough for a movie,
she would be my first pick to play me. As I said before, children are extremely
important to me. I love my own kids and love teaching children in general. My
favorite scriptures that best explains my role is found in Psalms 127:3-5. It
reads, “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and
the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of
them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the
gate” (King James Version). This scripture expresses that children are
blessings and are fruit of His womb. They are on loan to us and must be loved,
protected, and taught to love and honor God in all things.
The scriptures also help me understand that family is the strongest and most
important unit on the Earth. Family and children will bring us happiness and
strength. And that’s Me! Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteRebekah,
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to meet you! I found your comment about using Twitter for the first time through Liberty University to be amusing. I too see the irony and am fumbling through the social media web of which I have tried to avoid up until now. I do not have any children, so I have no idea how you do it all! I am exhausted just trying to keep my household running while working a full time (plus!) job and taking a couple of classes each semester. 6 kids, a spouse, a house, and add your own classwork, AND social media and you are a superwoman! We live in the Baltimore area and my husband has been a teacher in Montgomery County Maryland for 15 years now, while I have been at a faith based independent school for the last 10 years. You are moving to an expensive place! We skip down to D.C. every once and a while and are registered to run the Army 10 miler again in October. Living in the D.C. area will provide you with instant resources for your home schooling program! What a blessing to have that flexibility to bring a curriculum to life at your own pace! Best wishes for a successful course!
Stefanie Wainwright
Rebekah, Congratulations on your last semester. I know it can be a long program. I began my EdD back in 2012! I had to slow down when my Air Force job laid in front of me more responsibility than I could manage well and take two online courses. You, on the other hand, seem to have found a way to juggle it all.
ReplyDeleteI have a daughter who is probably about your age, she has 4 kids, and I don't know how she does it. I can't imagine how it is with six! It's a really terrific accomplishment to be able to raise six children, to homeschool them, complete a master's degree, and to still have time for other things in your life. Clearly, God has entrusted you with the care of those six precious ones, and may God bless you as you raise them in the "fear and admonition of the LORD."
Parents have a great responsibility that they have been given to raise our children. The most important thing to show them is how they can never be worthy on their own accord to stand before a holy God, and need to lean solely on Jesus as their intermediary. As Isaiah 64:6 says, just doing righteous acts are seen as “filthy rags” by God, and that all our efforts to strive for perfection are not enough because they will never be perfection. Our kids must know that only Jesus was sinless and that is why God gave all of a sinful humanity a perfect Jesus to pay the death penalty that each of us would otherwise earn because of our sin. One of the foundational verses in scripture to teach our kids is Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Because, as 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Thanks for taking on that responsibility with your children.
Thanks, Gary Cornn
Hi,
ReplyDeleteIt is so nice to meet you! I too am a stay at home mom right now. I have two little boys age 2 and 11 months. Going back to school has definitely been one of the most challenging things I could have done while staying at home. So I admire you for doing that and homeschooling! I love Julianne Hough! She is amazing and seems so fun. I also used that same passage of scripture to describe my place in life right now. I truly believe I have the greatest job and responsibility to raise my children to share the love of Christ. I am grateful that God has entrusted them to me! Have a great class and I hope to get to know you more!
Sarah West