It's a small world!

I looked out at my kids today....(I had 9 today)...and saw my orange water bottle from Walmart sitting on Norah's desk. I thought I had just inadvertently left it there when I was teaching. But no...it was Norah's orange water bottle from Walmart! Norah is a sweet girl who has lived her entire life in Rwanda and Burundi. But this summer, Norah's mom traveled to Florida and brought back the same orange water bottle that I had! We laughed. It's a small world...but a big one too! I found out today that my 9 kids have lived in 16 different countries on 5 continents! Places my students have lived: Montreal, Los Angeles, Baton Rouge, Annapolis, Haiti, Brazil, Phillipines, Kosovo, Belgium, Paris, London, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Congo, Kenya, Austin, Texas, and of course, Kigali. It's beautiful to see their faces in the morning. They(we) all laugh the same, cry the same, love the same, mourn the same, bleed the same. We're all God's children!