Howdy! This is one of those posts by me that has absolutely no focus but is solely me rambling on about whatever pops into my head. As a general rule, my stream-of-consciousness posts tend to be some of my favorites, but I make no promises on this one being any good. Not to mention, it is getting kinda late, and I have to be up early in the morning, so this can’t be super long or have any profound analogies like previous off-the-cuff posts have had. I, in my nerdy little English mind, think it’s funny that both words describing the spontaneity of my posts are hyphenated words. Yep, that’s me for ya.
Lately, my life has been pretty busy. I have been working five days a week as a teacher’s assistant in a summer school. I essentially do crowd control for kindergartners through third graders. It’s…. exhausting. I’m up every morning at six, and I’m working by seven thirty. It’s pretty fun, I love the kids, it just wears me down by mid-week. The school only runs for a month, and I have the rest of this week and one more week before it’s over. I am going to miss the kids dearly, but I will greatly appreciate being able to hang out late into the night again. I have learned a lot working with kids, and I can’t get into all of it tonight, but I will say that they are some of the most selfish beings I have ever encountered. I am probably the most selfish person I know, but man, I don’t even want to imagine what I was like as a kid. I mean holy cow, these kids don’t care about anything or anyone but themselves. It’s incredible. I love ‘em though. They’re pretty fun and behave for the most part.
I am having a great summer with my guys from youth group. It has been an amazing summer of fun, relaxation, and most of all, growth in Christ with these guys. I am truly enjoying the time I am spending with these guys. And while I am excited for school to start back up again, I am valuing every minute I spend with these guys because I know I will dearly miss them when I go back to TU.
I figure I should add a bit of what I’m learning on here so it is worth reading at least partly… So here is a little bit of what I’ve been learning (I have been learning many different things and developing my theology a lot this summer. So I’m sorry if it seems all over the place. I cannot possibly explain all I have been learning in this short blog post, but message me on Facebook if you want to hear more sometime.):
“We, as Christians and obligatory teachers of gospel of Jesus Christ, must always remember to keep the gospel at the center of what we teach and share with others. The minute we begin to stray away from the foot of the cross, in thinking its too basic or the like, is the minute we, as obligatory teachers, lose sight of the big picture and stray from the main idea of the Bible and Christianity.” (That’s how I would write it, if I was scholarly and stuff).
I will attempt to unpack this statement a bit for you. The word “obligatory” that I throw in front of the word “teacher” a couple of times in that statement above may be somewhat alarming or confusing to some of you (the word some assumes that more than one person actually reads this thing, ha!). I say obligatory because I could not think of a better way to say “we are all called to teach in some capacity” in adjective form. The reason I say that we are all called to teach in some capacity lies in Titus 2:1-6. It says:
