Sunday, July 13, 2025

TEACHERS PAST
Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

 A friend and I were talking today about past Sunday school experiences.  She taught children 30 years in Sunday school and loved it.  I had another friend prior to our move who had taught in a Sunday school department so long, she was then teaching the children of some of the students she had taught in time past.

The older I get, the more I tend to look back to my own Sunday school days and the dear ladies who taught me through those primary years and others on through high school.  I especially now like looking back to those times  those teachers who taught me and my friends.

I'm sure they had their times when they were weary in well-doing but still showed up to try to tame some wild children.  They couldn't have envisioned what some of those children would become in later life with lessons learned that helped shape young lives.

I've spoken of a dear lady who even encouraged me to help her with VBS when I had outgrown it in age.  She had me teach memory work to about 25 restless junior girls and boys.  I found that I really liked doing that and that teacher friend knew I had enjoyed it.  At the end of that week, she came to me and simply said that she felt someday I would be a really good Bible teacher.  Didn't sound possible at the moment but for over 65 years, that's what I've been doing.

I think we fail to look back at folks who invested themselves in our lives and got very little thanks for their dedication.  They may have wondered some days if it was worth the effort.  After all, even Sunday school teachers are human.  I see how each of those folks had an influence in my life.  I couldn't tell you one single lesson they taught that I now remember.  However, they left in me a love for the B-I-B-L-E and I received love and care from them they could never have known I needed.

I wish I could send them a note today of gratitude but they are all in Heaven now.  Their faithfulness to the task I hope has rubbed off on me.  You and I owe such folks a debt of gratitude for their investments.  We are left to carry on in whatever service for the Lord we have been called to do..it would delight those faithful folks if they could see for a moment that they DUN GUUUD. 

Thank You Father for those teachers whose every name I recall.  Through them, I came to love You and others in the Bible.  I learned principles through them I couldn't have received anywhere else.  Thank You for that church basement where all the classrooms were and for that wonderful smell  in it that I'll never forget.  In Jesus' precious name....Amen
 

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