Summer is quickly coming to an end. As the years go by, summer gets faster and faster. It seems to be traveling at the speed of light.
For those in the classroom, it is time to start getting ready and prepare for the first day of school. Maybe some of you have been working in your rooms and on lessons already. So have I. But the first preparation I make isn’t in my room or looking over lessons. My first preparation is to pray for all of the kids. Like so many of you, I teach many broken boys and girls. I pray that while they are at school and in my classroom they will find a safe, loving environment to learn, grow and be themselves.
No matter which child walks through our door remember “broken crayons still color!”
Don’t give up on them. Speak life by the way you encourage and love each child you encounter this year. Teaching is a tough profession, but we have such an awesome opportunity to build up and make a difference in the lives of children.
Take a minute and read and listen to the words from Speak Life by TobyMac.
Some days life feels perfect
Other days, it just ain’t workin’
The good, the bad, the right, the wrong
And everything in between
Yo it’s crazy, amazing
We can turn our heart through the words we say
Mountains crumble with every syllable
Hope can live or die
So speak life, speak life
To the deadest darkest night
Speak life, speak life
When the sun won’t shine and you don’t know why
Look into the eyes of the broken hearted
Watch them come alive as soon as you speak hope
You speak love, you speak
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
Some days the tongue gets twisted
Other day my thoughts just fall apart
I do, I don’t, I will, I won’t
It’s like I’m drowning in the deep
Well, it’s crazy to imagine
Words from my lips as the arms of compassion
Mountains crumble with every syllable
Hope can live or die
So speak life, speak life
To the deadest darkest night
Speak life, speak life
When the sun won’t shine and you don’t know why
Look into the eyes of the broken hearted
Watch them come alive as soon as you speak hope
You speak love, you speak
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
Lift your head a little higher
Spread the love like fire
Hope will fall like rain
When you speak life with the words you say
Raise your thoughts a little higher
Use your words to inspire
Joy will fall like rain when you speak life with the things you say
Lift your head a little higher
Spread the love like fire
Hope will fall like rain
When you speak life with the words you say
So speak life, speak life
To the deadest darkest night
Speak life, speak life
When the sun won’t shine and you don’t know why
Look into the eyes of the broken hearted
Watch them come alive as soon as you speak hope
You speak love, you speak
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
You speak life, oh oh oh oh oh
Some days life feels perfect
Make an difference this year and speak life.