"You do what you are."

I watched "Along Came a Spider" this last weekend for the first time and in this movie, Morgan Freeman says this awesome line..."You do what you are." UNBELIEVABLE!! To me, it really makes so much more sense than saying"You are what you do". When you turn it around to mean that you eventually let your chosen profession identify who you are, an alarm inside your head SHOULD be going off. That is not the way God created our minds to think. God created me, for example, to be a teacher. For those of you who know me personally, this is what I have to say about that..."Really?"

Now I've been in college for 4 years already and I have set my mind on being a teacher. However, I have felt very uneasy about it lately (as in the last 6 mths). I know that there was a time when I couldn't see myself as anything but a teacher, but I can't help but think "Is this really what I want to do for the rest of my life?" I want to have a family of my own one day, so why spend day in and day out with other people's kids?

Well after a couple months of living in the Mississippi Delta and hanging around some incredible parents, some who have young kids and some who are about to or already are facing "empty nest syndrome", I have become inspired once again to educate kids in order to make God look absolutely glorious. After all, He's the one that provided me with the tools to teach and since I am supposed to do what I am, I'm certain that I will be an educator (to other children and to my own children) for the rest of my life. Of all of the amazing things that I've learned this summer, one great thing is that I will never stop learning and I will never stop teaching.

I do not know where and I do not know when (for certain) but whenever and wherever I teach, I want it to be all for His glory and not for my own.

Amen...thanks Matt.