Chapter Three: What Drives Your Life?
Question: What would my family and friends say is the driving force of my life? What do I want it to be?
Answer: Honestly, this is an easy question for me. I think the answer to both these questions is the same. What drives my life? Two things: my family and my teaching, and I believe my family and friends know this. I live for my two children. They truly are my everything. The reason I get up in the morning, the reason I go to work, the reason I do almost anything that I do is for them. I want to give them a life worth living. I can't say I want to give them a better life than I had, because my childhood was wonderful. I suppose I am attempting to give them the same childhood I had: fun and loving. This shows in my daily life, in my opinion.
The other thing that drives my life is my teaching. I have found my calling in life. It is to teach at-risk teens. I used to think I stumbled upon this calling on accident, but I am beginning to understand that God laid that path out for me long ago. It shocks a lot of people who know and meet me to find out my passion is to teach this troubled youth, but it's undeniable. Yes, they frustrate me. Yes, I have my days where I want to quit and never come back, but every morning I wake up, and I am ready to return and try again. If I don't get through to these kids, if I don't give them a chance, who will?
I know that I would like God to be more of a driving force in my life, and that He is not obviously a big part of it right now, but I am going to work on this. I am a work in progress. He knows this and understands this. And I am starting to wonder if God ISN'T a driving force in my life....is He? Is He a strong force and I just didn't realize it until now????
Answer: Honestly, this is an easy question for me. I think the answer to both these questions is the same. What drives my life? Two things: my family and my teaching, and I believe my family and friends know this. I live for my two children. They truly are my everything. The reason I get up in the morning, the reason I go to work, the reason I do almost anything that I do is for them. I want to give them a life worth living. I can't say I want to give them a better life than I had, because my childhood was wonderful. I suppose I am attempting to give them the same childhood I had: fun and loving. This shows in my daily life, in my opinion.
The other thing that drives my life is my teaching. I have found my calling in life. It is to teach at-risk teens. I used to think I stumbled upon this calling on accident, but I am beginning to understand that God laid that path out for me long ago. It shocks a lot of people who know and meet me to find out my passion is to teach this troubled youth, but it's undeniable. Yes, they frustrate me. Yes, I have my days where I want to quit and never come back, but every morning I wake up, and I am ready to return and try again. If I don't get through to these kids, if I don't give them a chance, who will?
I know that I would like God to be more of a driving force in my life, and that He is not obviously a big part of it right now, but I am going to work on this. I am a work in progress. He knows this and understands this. And I am starting to wonder if God ISN'T a driving force in my life....is He? Is He a strong force and I just didn't realize it until now????
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