What are you teaching?

Today I was reading the Purpose Driven Life eDevotional.  It was speaking about how we teach with our lives.

 

I have begun to consider what my life may have been teaching and what I want it to teach.

 

Interestingly, I had a friend in high school who knew I was going to be a teacher (a good teacher, she said).  So she gave me a brass apple hook.  I have had it everywhere I have lived since high school and it has been a reminder to me of how one person saw me and also a reminder of her.

 

I may not be a teacher by profession now, but like each person I meet, I teach with my life.  This was an enlightening thing for me, as I have been struggling with how to get back to being a teacher.

 

What are you teaching?

 

From: http://dailyspiritualguide.com/

I enjoyed this thought this morning and thought I would share it. We so often get caught up in the idea of success. I sometimes wander what life would be like if I did such or the other and only in recent months have decided that I need not be well known or do anything huge to be of value.

Value
Things are to be valued not for their bigness or littleness, but for their ability to perform the task for which they were made.
A tiny screw in a precious watch is less admired than its jewels and precious metals. And yet the running of the watch may depend more on the screw than on the jewels or metals. God loves the man who knows how to value his achievement in life, and sees it as his participation in God's total work of creation.
Such a man is at peace with himself and others because he is content with his portion of reality and his opportunity to make that portion useful.
"My Daily Life"Anthony J. Paone, S.J.

What Would I Want

So, this week I have been reading alot about LOVE and specifically Jesus teachings on LOVE, as well as what he called the greatest commandments.

And it dawned on me today that perhaps Jesus pointed us in a direction that we have not considered before. We often ask "What Would Jesus Do," but based on his teaching about the greatest commandments I think a more specific response might be "What Would I Want?" especially when we deal with other people.

Letting Go

Let us imagine that life is a river. Most people are clinging to the bank, afraid to let go and risk being carried along by the current. At a certain point, each person must be willing to simply let go, and trust the river to carry him or her along safely. At this point he learns to "go with the flow" and it feels wonderful.
Once he has gotten used to being in the flow of the river, he can begin to look ahead and guide his own course onward, deciding where the course looks best, steering his way around boulders and snags, and choosing which of the many channels and branches of the river he prefers to follow, all the while still 'going with the flow."
'Creative Visualization"by Shakti Gawain