When you're stuck at home these days, information overload is a feeling that likely comes your way every so often. Work, news, social media and the like can all contribute to that feeling. To that effect, I have seen quite a few different takes on our current situation. People quoting the "and the people stayed home" work by Kitty O'Meara to God taking away. the things we worshiped because they were the wrong things. The latter of the two has really rubbed me the wrong way as a believer; I do not believe in a punitive God but a God of mercy and compassion. But fortunately, that sentiment (one where things have been taken by God) also really gotten me to think about what we're to make of all this. It seems to me like this less about something being taken away, a punitive viewpoint, and more about the fact that we all just got a new pair of glasses.
We've all gotten our new pair of glasses, but their not the same pair. We got the pair that fit us the best, the ones that make a style statement unique to who we are. Not only did we not get the same frames, we've all got different prescription lenses too. Everything about our glasses is different, but yet we all have the same outcome. We can see what we need to see better; what WE need to see better, not what others need to see better. Maybe we're getting a clearer view of what matters most to us. Maybe now we can see that some things are not what they appear to be.Maybe we were farsighted and the thing we needed to see the most was right in front of us the whole time. Maybe we were nearsighted and thought the grass had to be greener out there on the horizon. What are you seeing now that you didn't see before? I will share with you a few of mine. I'm seeing that while discipline is never something to "enjoy" I'm wondering what's going to happen to the kid who could have learned through school consequences but now won't get the chance to make that mistake at school? Will he make that mistake somewhere else in life where there are less forgiving outcomes? I'm seeing that we can still teach kids, feed kids, talk to kids and much more in this new virtual learning environment; in fact, we can do all but one thing that we normally do on a daily basis. What is that one thing? We can't be physically present. It's amazing what that the one element brings to the table in an educators world. I'm learning that my journey as a teacher wasn't complete when I became an Assistant Principal. To go with that I am learning that I would be a mediocre first or second grade teacher at best. More over, I am certified in both. In trying to teach my own kids
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