Grace & Truth
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great towers are the destinies set before every generation. Racial
equality and human sanctity are not the works of nature, but the work of people. Humans build enduring and magnificent feats because we build on one another. Every age builds on the last, so it goes that the most excellent job given to anyone is the person who educates another. Many thanks are owed to those who give their lives to instruct others. The heights and
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you’ve ever considered education as serious business, there is nothing more important than helping others build brighter futures.
emotional, intellectual and social health is how we see a better future.
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limbing mountains and building
depths in which we find ourselves today are built atop hundreds of layers of instructors.
Educators form the world. So, if you teach others in any way, I say thank you. I would also like to remind every educator that we must engage our students holistically. We must not think our job is intellectual only, but we must regularly engage emotionally. Let’s connect young people to their entire existence. Physical, emotional, intellectual and social health is how we see a better future. I’m grateful for people who have done that for me, for my wife, and now for my kids. I thank
Without the forethought to serve the future by writing down all they learn and experience,
taught rich truths authored in Heaven on a
God for every lesson my parents learned that
we can’t be where we are.
plain that we don’t naturally gravitate.
they taught me.
I taught in a high school for seven years. I know it’s a mostly thankless job. Honor doesn’t come till many years later when those you gave your all recognize the investment. I am incredibly blessed by dozens of men and women who poured their life into me. I’m so grateful to those who taught me about life, science, history, the Bible and God. My life is richer.
Jesus met with every kind of person with patience and taught them things that would change their life. When Jesus was giving his last instructions to his followers, He commanded us to go and teach everyone about what He has taught. Jesus’ great mission that He sends all of us to do is to teach. Education is the most important assignment we have.
If you want to build a brighter future, don’t think of bricks and hammers and bank accounts. Think people. Think about children or young people that are just starting. A better world is a world of better people. Governmental systems, economies and religion are not based on better theories. They are based on better humans. And no one has more influence on that than educators.
I am a follower of Jesus. I do all that I can to
So, whether you believe in Jesus or not,
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honor Him and live like Him. Jesus was known
whether you have ever recognized the ones
Askewville Assembly of God. He can be reached
as a rabbi or teacher for his entire life. Jesus
who took the time to teach you, and whether
via email at pastorwebb@hotmail.com.
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