be an inspiration

Okay so this isn’t about me being and inspiration, but about someone who has been an inspiration to me.

Tonight in my Intro to Early Childhood Education class we had to write down a person who has been a big inspiration in our lives. Not just that, but a person who has encouraged us to go into the field of ECE. Instantly I thought of my kindergarten teacher Mrs. Luxton. Well any ways, we were to right down things that helped us in learning and things that we noticed the person doing that kept us on the “right” track. After we shared who our person was and the different things that we listed about them, our teacher told us that we are to take it home and rewrite it. Not for a homework assignment, but to make it into a letter. After writing the letter we are to send them to that person. This is great! I get to tell the woman who made me love kids how much she has done in my life, from one year of working with me.

So to Mrs. Luxton, fifteen years ago you became the teacher who I never realized would have made such an impact on my life as it is now. Thank you. You will always be remembered as an inspiration.

And I can only hope that one day someone will think back to a time that they spent with me, and find me to be an inspiration.

I am a teacher for the 6 and 7 year old Sunday school in my church. Well today my lesson was on Jesus coming back and what he said will happen. Well I ended up having 9 kids, which is a lot for my class, and they were crazy. They wouldn’t listen to me, they were talking while I was, and they were coloring in their notebooks instead of listening to me. I was really frustrated needless to say. So I had all of them put their pens down and close their books so that I could finish the lesson. Well that didn’t help they still didn’t listen, they opened their books again and everything, so i took it all away.

Here is where inspiration comes in…

Well I told then that I was frustrated with them not listening because this stuff was important. So I asked them “why are we in Sunday School?” Their responses were to learn about God and to get candy, not even joking. So I talked to then about how Sunday school and church weren’t just about learning about Jesus, but building a foundation, a relationship, with Him. They were a little confused but I got up and walked around and simplified it for them. I told then that they cant mess around with a relationship with God, I told them about Hell and the seriousness of it, they actually all had there eyes on me and listened, they have never done that! I got to talk to them and tell them that the lessons weren’t what was important, and I threw my book across the room so that they would get it. I told them that for all I care we will spend every day talking about this then what ever is in the book.It blew their minds I think, they have never had someone tell then the real truth, sure they have heard the Bible stories and hear God’s word, but they never had anyone talk to then like and adult, someone to not water down things like Hell(never being relieved of the pain that we will go through), and Jesus dying on the cross(because He was perfect). We talked about Heaven and how we can go there and spend eternity with God. We talked about eternity and how once we die we can’t change anything, that if we are sentenced to Hell there is nothing that will changed God’s mind. And then we talked about angels and how we don’t become angels because they are lower ranked than humans, I told them what the bible says angels look like and how angels are warriors. Some of my kids even asked where they could find the description of angels in their Bibles. It was amazing!

This is what I want my every day to be like. I want to inspire people of all ages to see who God really is and to encourage them to give their all to Him.