. . . Therefore, I Teach!

Every individual has at some moment or another experienced a moment of revelation. Most of us have experienced this countless times throughout life . . . the moment of discovery when what once did not make sense becomes strikingly clear, and understanding happens. I love that moment, and I love helping other people to discover revelation. I want to be a teacher because I deeply enjoy people, and I know that I want to spend my life working with young people. I love helping people to become; I love influencing them and assisting them to identify who they are. I love challenging them to find their dreams and that unique place where gifts and passions collide. I want my students to reach out for those things, and I want the broken ones who have no support and encouragement to know that someone believes in them.
Specifically, I want to be an English teacher because I believe in the power of language and communication. I believe that language empowers people to develop their thoughts about their humanity and their world-view, and to communicate those thoughts with the world through writing and speech. Likewise, reading develops an individual’s understanding of the thoughts and ideas men and women of every nation and generation have held. Even more, language allows people to know God through His Word, His communicative expression to mankind.
I believe that teaching will be the most difficult task that I have yet faced, and I take the role very seriously. It fills me with awe and sometimes fright to recognize the power that a teacher has to influence his or her students, and I pray that the Lord will guide me with integrity and humility to lead my students in love and truth. However, as I continue to look back over my life and grapple with my humanity and my inclinations, it becomes increasingly apparent that the place where my giftings and passions collide is teaching. I find my life and my identity in my Lord Jesus, and I know that He created me with purpose and glory in mind. I have made a choice that in my life, I will delight in God in all circumstances. I find my highest joy in teaching. For me, then, to teach unto Christ is to bring the highest glory to Christ; therefore, I teach.