bff.ttfn.lol.cul8r

I forgot how much fun it is to speak to Junior Highers. I had a cool opportunity to speak to the junior high chapel at Ada Christian School. I was pretty much dreading it. Having been postponed from the first weeks of January because of snow, I was really hoping I would encounter the same fate today. However, now that it's done, I'm really glad I didn't get frozen out. I was surprised to feel a bit of sadness over not teaching anymore: the halls, the kids, the books, even the eighth graders snickering in the back of the room. At the very least, I remembered why I went into teaching in the first place and in turn why I ended up at Ada Bible Church. I know I don't belong in the classroom and LOVE my job at the church, but I'm glad that I had this opportunity to spend a half-hour with some really cool kids. I saw the great potential of those 150 some kids to help change the world. I know it sound so cheesy and sophomoric to even see the words type out before me. But in all honesty, that is why one decides to teach. In some of us there lies this idyllic notion that we have the power to affect change in the life of these kids and for them to do the same to the world around them. For some reason, I just can't get over that.