Forsake me not when my strength is spent...

It's hard to believe that I only have 14 school days left for this school year!!!! Time continues to fly by faster and faster. This month is already completely full! Between end of the school year To-Dos, school requirements, my baby sister's graduation, co-leading a small group, babysitting, friends' wedding showers, actual weddings, and traveling to California my schedule is jam packed! Now, don't get me wrong, it's jam packed with awesomeness:) but it can wear me out if I'm not careful.

God has graciously provided me with a Psalm that I am claiming for this last month. He revealed it to me when school started in the fall, but I'm seeing it now through different eyes! This is my cry to Lord in the midst of the craziness! The whole Psalm is absolutely wonderful, but there have been specific parts that have spoken to me as an exhausted teacher:). I hope these verses can be a small encouragement to some of you as well!

Psalm 71

¹² O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!

¹⁴ But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.

¹⁷ O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
¹⁸ So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
²⁰ You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
²¹ You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

²² I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.