You came back in August believing this year would be different.

It's February now. The room smells like radiator dust and wet boots. You're working ten hours a week past your contract, you've stopped expecting much from the people above you, and somewhere in there you started wondering whether wanting out means something is wrong with your faith.

Most devotionals for teachers are written to the person you were in August. This one is written to the person you are now.

Teachers in the Word offers 180 daily devotions, one for every school day, Monday through Friday, across 36 weeks that follow the real shape of a school year. Week 1 is the empty room. Week 22 is the February wall. Week 30 is the contract decision. Week 36 is the summer.

One conviction runs underneath all 180 entries: God sustains the teacher He called, not the teacher you are trying to be.

There are no invented stories here. No composite students, no fictional colleague who turned it all around. Every entry opens on your actual condition, then goes into the biblical text and stays there. Elijah under the juniper tree. Moses numbering his days. Paul pressed beyond his strength. Lamentations refusing to pretend things were better than they were. Scripture in the King James Version, quoted exactly and handled in context.

Each entry runs under few words. You have twelve minutes at 6:15 and some of that is coffee.

Inside:

- 180 devotions with Scripture reading, key verse, prayer, and two reflection questions
- 36 weekly discussion guides for a teacher friend, a small group, or staff devotions
- A word for the first-year teacher, and for the one who almost didn't come back
- A prayer for the teacher reading this alone

This book will not make you a better teacher. It puts Scripture next to your real condition and lets it say what it says.

Start wherever you are in the year.