I'm sorry, who are you?

We came to Abilene for a few days to help my mom with a garage sale. It's always a good time coming home! And of course I got to see Panissa which makes it that much better! I love that girl, and hate that "growing up" sometimes means you don't live near the friends that you love so much!! Thankfully, some things never change and whenever we see each other we just pick back up from where we left off! :)
I'm rambling....

Anyways, we decided to go get lunch today. We were sitting there and I hear "Panissa Dor!" She gets excited and exchanges hello's with this woman. I'm sitting there, not really looking at or paying attention to whats going on because "I don't know this woman." Panissa then says, and look, Sheryl's here! The sweet woman says hi and clearly knows who I am..... not knowing what else to say, I reply "I'm sorry, but I don't know who you are right now..."  ahhh!!!!! how embarassing!! I hate that, I'm usually so good with faces!!!  Come to find out, it was one of our really sweet teachers from highschool.

Of course, this gets me to thinking.... I wonder how many of my teachers I would actually recognize? I come up with a handful. Then, a step farther...What do I remember about these teachers, how did they impact me? haha....sadly, I don't have huge life changing memories of my teachers. Not that they were bad, or I hated school by any means...but none of them "changed my life." Like, because of "her" that is why I wanted to become a teacher...nobody like that comes to mind.

I don't want that to be me to my students 10 years from now. I want to make an impact. I want to leave an impression. Not of myself, but of Christ's love. I want each baby who leaves my class to know that I love them and that there is something more in this life that just the mess that most of them see at home. It's almost a new school year and new chance to love these kiddos.... to make an impact... to not just go to work each day and complain about things that I don't agree with or things that I can't change.....

I want to love with God's love every single day.

S