I love to teach.
But admittedly, not everyone in my sphere of influence wants--or needs--to be taught at any given moment.
Maybe it is so difficult to turn off because we as teachers hardly realize our teacher voice is always turned on. We scan the horizon incessantly for teachable moments.
I was a young married when I did my student teaching in an open classroom (remember those?) of kindergartners, first and second graders.
Always with a knack for talking to little kids, I carried it home one too many times.
On this particular day, I opened our kitchen cabinet to find the Chips Ahoy cookie bag standing wide open.
I marched (yes, marched) into the den and asked my husband, "Is this the way we close our cookies?"
We'll let his reply (that I deserved minus the color) go the way of forgotten words. But I've tried, failing many times, to remember the lesson.
Be a listener...be a learner. Then when God opens the right moment, be a teacher.
Thanks to Catherine Smith for sharing this picture.
