Day 10: Adding it all up

Well here it is - day 10 of blogging. If you knew me at all, you would really be scratching your head, because you... well, you KNEW me. No New Years resolution has ever made it this far for me. That's why I didn't make this a New Years resolution, so since it isn't a resolution, I'm still here. Kinda like the improbability drive for Ford Prefect's space ship in Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy... it calculated the odds AGAINST you getting where you wanted to go, and the greater the odds against you getting anywhere were, the quicker you got there. Yeah, kinda stupid... especially if you've never read Hitchikers Guide before. If that's the case, I just wasted approximately 10.385 seconds of your life. I'd like to apologize. I'm not going to, you understand - I just wanted you to know I'd like to.

Anyway - back to adding things up. My purpose for starting this blog was not to entertain, not to look for those funny spiffy little moments to amuse all who read it. I really DID want to force myself to intentionally LOOK for something God was doing or telling me each day. And so I have. So now I am adding it up to see what God has told me this last 10 days.
Here it is.

1. I am where I am supposed to be, doing what I am supposed to be doing. I am a teacher, one of the proud members of a great anonymous group of people who intentionally insert themselves into the lives of students, hoping to do more than just get them to remember that "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue". Almost every week, a different student will tell me that I am important to them, and sometimes they will even tell me why.
2. The pre-teen and teenagers I teach are really smart. I can learn so much from them. They still have all the teenage angst going on - every generation suffers thru that... no way around it - but there have been times when I will be talking to one of them about something and they will offer up an insight so profound that it almost takes my breath away.
3. I need to get out of the way and let the kids create. That's the big difference between this year and last. Last year, I ran rehearsals, directed each group. This year I told the groups... make it happen, make it good. And they are magnificent.

Well - that's the scoop so far. I have a feeling this year is going to be a blockbuster for me, because after only 10 days in, I am so overwhelmed with what I have seen God tell me so far. Kinda like this is the previews of coming attractions, like what we see at the movies.
Blessings!
Mr G