I recall a church member named Donna who would be the first to say that her teaching job is a calling-a calling from God. She says that over her career she has always sensed that God gifted her for teaching and that God is at work through her in her teaching.
If you can hear through the political cacophony of budgets, union issues, media coverage of incidents, etc. surrounding the field of teaching and schools, you can hear teachers who exude enthusiasm for their calling as teachers of our children.
My sister who teaches 2nd grade in the Kenyon-Wanamingo school system finds each year and make-up of each class a new opportunities to touch lives, and mold lives with knowledge and skills.
“Thank you for your teaching!” is a comment we could all make to the teachers around us. Teaching is, after all, a calling or vocation from God to show our children the way into this amazing world our Lord has created for us.
Rev. Durk Peterson
