Prayer works!

I have been participating in a site specifically for prayer, but decided to research some prayer and social community options. Note that the person mentioned first in the article is 16 years old.

I have been participating in a site specifically for prayer, but decided to research some prayer and social community options. Note that the person mentioned first in the article is 16 years old.

I, too, recall teaching sophomores in a setting where sweat was running down my back and I could see beads of sweat on students' foreheads. I was thinking....How do we work on Geometry topics in this heat???

In the Crossways Bible study materials, sin is diagramed with an arrow that circles a person's head. It is pointing totally back to self instead of toward God or other people. In the Melanesian Pidgin Language that we used in Papua New Guinea, we called it "Mi yet tingting." That translates to "Thinking only of myself." If you keep self-centeredness in mind as you read through the Ten Commandments, you easily see that all of them warn of the dangers of self-centeredness.

As educators, we are indeed blessed if we can interact with students over a long enough time-frame to be able to notice "long-term change." John and I were recently expressing our amazement at the maturity and 'presence' of one of our current seniors. She has grown in so many ways during these four years at Concordia. We feel priviledged to have connected with her during these years...and we hope we can stay connected as she embarks on a teaching career next year.