Expectation

I have been teaching tambourine since July this year. Frankly, I have no idea why I took up the responsibility, probably because of my love for tambourine. Today I figured out that I have high expectations on the children. I am preparing them for the Christmas presentation and started to teach them the steps today. I was "fierce" to them and some of them were not too happy about it. Hm, something that was "fun" to them, turns out to be very stressful.

It is not my intention to make them feel stressful about the presentation. Perhaps the fact that I grew up in a strict environment, I just applied what I have learnt in the past. However, I seemed to forget that they may be different from me.

I went to Church Camp and became close to two [2] of my pupils. They could not come to Church because their father opposed to them attending Church service. They wrote me a letter telling me so, and I replied their letter [in Chinese :p]. I left my number with them and they called me today.

I could feel the joy being a teacher, and because I could feel that the children like me too. Once I received a card from another student telling me that she was sorry because she could not be consistent in her attendance. This is the second case.

Lord, what do you want me to learn from here? I pray for Your guidance.