Monday, August 27, 2018

SABRINA As the school year has begun, both students and teachers across our city and county face a new year. A family, of sorts, has been formed for the next nine months. One of the greatest challenges teachers face is not reading, math, or science, but how to teach students to manage and cope in what at times may be an unmanageable home life, or world around them. To help them find THEIR control in an often seemingly uncontrollable situation. Whether we admit it or not, we all struggle with control. We fear losing control means certain failure, when in fact, they are the moments we find our inner strength and learn where it comes from. We need to look into the faces of not only our children, but aging parents, friends and neighbors and support and encourage them. Life is hard. We need each other. This said, pray for teachers, not just today, but throughout this school year. They teach our children much more than the academics. Offer encouraging words to a teacher, and remember, our God is with us always, helping us manage in what often seems an unmanageable world! Have a blessed day!