It's all for the children

One more week to go. To be honest this placement has had its ups and downs. I absolutely love my students. And I really like my teacher as well but honestly I put so much pressure on myself to impress her and make sure I look great to her and PERFECT. And I know we all want to look our best for our teachers. But to try and be perfect is not realistic. We are STUDENT teachers. Now is our time to learn. Our time to make those mistakes and for our teachers to catch them and correct us and to make us better. Those mistakes are what is going to make us the best teachers we can be. Well I have gotten so caught up in trying to impress my teacher that I feel like sometimes I lose sight of why I am truly there. And today God reminded me why I am student teaching, why I went through 4 and half years of school and why I am pushing through all the tears and late nights. Today during computers my teacher was doing something on the computer so I was running around to all of the students helping them with different questions they had. I was between two students and I look over and was watching one little boy as he was working so hard and really focusing on what he was doing. It was only about 10 seconds that I was observing this little boy but in those 10 seconds God reminded me of my passion for children. I absolutely love children, and I want to teach them, and mold them and impact them. I want to help them. I have always had a passion for children and watching this little boy working on his computer today God just reminded me of that passion. And I talked to one of my best friends tonight and one of my old cheerleading coaches and it really helped me to think and reflect. God is really good. In the midst of all the busyness God has little ways of reminding us of our passion and that all the struggles and bumps in the road and the hard times are all worth it.