Whenever I am thrown off timing for my daily walk, I’ve come to anticipate God’s maneuvering me to be at an inspirational destination at the perfect moment. So it was this past Thursday.
The week the school year started, and the neighborhood scholars were back in clusters waiting for their orange chariot escort to the hallways of learning. My being later than normal, the middle schoolers and my pathways intersected.
The young hearts I observed were joy-filled, kind and polite — not the image portrayed by much of the media. My faith in, and hope for, the future was enthusiastically renewed as I passed each pack of bright, emboldened eyes.
Rounding the bend for what would be my last group, I realized they bringing renewed faith to me should be but half the equation. These young people need assurance too. I stopped and shared.
My words expressed: School nowadays seems backwards. Teachers are considered the intelligent, whose job is to make students knowledgeable; but actually students, standing on this very corner hold the seeds of wisdom the whole world desperately needs. Teachers are worn and disillusioned. The “today” happiness and “tomorrow” dreams shining in your hearts are powerful, God given (and driven) tools that can change downtrodden teachers into uplifted mentors. When you enter your classrooms today do so knowing the lessons needing to be taught will be yours to teach. Not a teacher in this world holds the answers tomorrow requires. Solely, your hearts and souls hold the key to unlock and open the windows of light and enlightenment our world so deeply needs. So good luck and God’s love as you show the world how wise, capable and inspirational each and every one of you are. Thank you for blessing my day and my life.
Their sweet thank You’s hovered over me as I continued my walk, knowing that tomorrow’s footprint is safely held by the middle schoolers crossing my path today. May we all reject Satan’s call to curse today’s media proclaiming evil youth. Instead, pray for God’s future generation who tomorrow can (and will) deliver headlines of “Good News”. “At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children’.” Matthew 11:25 (NIV)
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