"Count your blessings, not your worries"

Another great day serving in the Lord's house. I have so many blessing poured out upon me on any given day. I am in awe of how much God's love is all around me.

Today, I as assigned to be a patron for the new sisters in training. There was a very sweet abiding Spirit of love and gratitude from the sisters whom I worked with today. They thanked me profusely and were so kind. It was the very first hour, and it set the tone for the rest of the day.

As I waited for the names to be given for me to do, the worker pronounced one of the names like German, it was "Weiss." But it was spelled in OLD German. I went to read it and the worker was in awe that I knew how to say the name. There were also names of sisters in Mexico. Again I pronounced them easily. Other names kept coming up and I knew, even though not in Spanish. I felt the awareness of the gift of tongues.

At the time, I had a flash back of my freshman high school English teacher. She drummed into our heads, the origins or etymology of the word roots, be they Greek, Latin, Spanish, or whatever. The phrase, "If you can read this, thank a teacher."

I had the hardest time in my freshman English class, but not with the subject. It was the teacher. I think I rubbed her the wrong way. She piled so much word root onto me one day for probably being a little to mouthy, or challenging her. She gave me an extra assignment that I went home and learned so much more than I would have otherwise.

I learned valuable lessons in high school from my freshman English class
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1) Respect your teacher, no matter what.

2) A little extra work or assignment as punishment didn't hurt me one bit.

3) It actually whet my appetite for learning, although forced upon me.

4) I am in charge of what happens to me in how I dealt with figures of authority.

5) I learned the most from this teacher, and

6) I ended up really liking her a lot, and the impact she had on my life was valuable in my later studies in getting to a Master's degree and above in education. My thirst for learning was always there too.

I may very well have exceeded the education my freshman high school teacher(s) had.

I am the one who benefited regardless from the hard lessons learned in her class.