So I’m about to tell you how a group of high school students had me in tears tonight. I just got back from a play at a high school.
In this play, students from many different countries, cultures and backgrounds came together to share with the audience their stories. They talked about their childhoods and moving to America. They showed us dances and spoke in their native languages. At the end there was even some food from the different countries.
Their stories touched me they talked about some of the really hard things they had seen in their countries. They talked about seeing people killed and imprisoned. They talked about having to practically raise their siblings at really young ages. They talked about the persecution they faced from people and classmates when they moved to America. Then they talked about the thing that stuck me the hardest. Many of them talked about their teachers and how much of an inspiration they were/are. They said that the most important thing to them was education and that their teachers had inspired them so much. These kids were talking about how they want to change people’s lives and do what their teachers did for them. These kids were talking about being doctors, teachers, about being a friend to everyone around them, about going back to their countries and bringing hope, about going and graduating from college, About being an inspiration and being the change they wanted to see in the world.
This play just helped solidify the fact that teaching is what I want to be doing. I want to inspire, love, and stand up for every single one of my students so they can do the same for so many others. Almost all the things the students said they wanted to do are things I want to do as well. Most of these things I get to do now with the students in my classes and I love it! But I have to admit I am getting a little stir crazy. I am starting to dream big and it is hard to keep my feet on the ground and my head out of the clouds. I want to leave for The Race tomorrow I want to go to the nations and experience their cultures, their stories, and their languages. I want to embrace them and pour out the love of The Father on them. I want to rise up nations. I want to start schools in Africa, I want to show Gods hope to the sex slave victims of Thailand and Cambodia, I want to CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD!!!!
I’m really carried away right now but have to get up early for a science education workshop. Goodnight
