Dr. Rife, the head of the Education department here at Dallas Christian College (DCC), visited our class this morning to give the devotion. In the midst of retelling a story about how he, at nearly 17 years of age, fully committed himself to go where God would lead him he broke out into song. The song he sang was a tune he'd learned much earlier as a Christian youth, a song that emphasizes that everything we need for tomorrow we have......all we have to do is follow (God).
As we, the members of the DCC ACCESS class of 2011, strive to become the teachers God wants us to be, are we fully open to go where God leads us or do we have some predetermined notion of where we will go, what we will teach, and whom we will teach? A powerful question but one that I can answer with a simple statement, made from my heart, as follows:
"I am a pencil in God's hand, to be used by Him to touch the lives of those I am privileged to teach, whoever they are, wherever they may be. My calling is strong and while I feel a special "pull" toward kindergarten and lower elementary I love ALL children, particularly those who may not love themselves, who may not believe they can succeed and who may not have a support system at home. I have been on a course, since age 6, that only God could have charted. He is my Captain, He is my Rock, and I am His pencil."
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