New Starts

Good day, God, and thanks for this new day! I have a lot to do today, all of which is pretty pleasant, so it looks to be a good day. Of course, what I give to the day will mostly determine what kind of day it is, so please be with me to help me to give all that I can.

Starting next week, I'll be teaching five new classes with about 110 new students, so once again, I ask you to be with me during my new start so that I may be able to be an effective teacher for these young people who need effective teachers in their lives. I hope to be someone who can help them to learn the things that they need and want to learn, but mostly who can help them to learn how to learn. My goal is to help them to enjoy the learning, too, so that it isn't something that they're doing just to fulfill requirements.

So please help me on this new start to have patience, insight, love, discernment, and the necessary knowledge to help them to learn and to grow. I'm good at what I do and that fact helps me to be confident as a teacher, but I never want to grow to be too confident and stop seeing the needs of the students and mistakes that I may be making.

A response:

Good day to you, too. It sounds like it will be a good day if you go into it with a positive attitude--your attitude does more to make a day positive or negative than anything else, and if your perspective is focused on the positive, then the positive will be what you see and experience. And even some things that others may see as negative can turn out in positive ways for you.

As far as your new start is concerned, all you have to do is remember that when you ask me to be with you in any endeavor, what you're really asking for is the consciousness of the fact that whatever you do in my name, you're doing with the right motivation and in connection with me. I am with you always, so you don't have to ask me to be with you; when you do, it's like you're lighting a candle that you already have that was full of potential and that's now being useful and helpful.

One of the reasons that so many people feel so much anxiety is that they try to do everything themselves. They forget that they have a connection with me that never goes away and that never diminishes--but that they don't always tap into as they could or should. A prayer opens that connection, it doesn't establish it. When your heart is yearning for something and you ask for my aid, remember that the candle is always there and that it never burns down or out--but it does need you to light it in a very simple way.

You know from experience that the semester will be a good one. You're not facing any challenges at this point that will be difficult, but one never knows--with 110 students, there are bound to be some unforeseen issues coming your way. But you also know that the means to deal with those issues is within you and with you all the time--a simple shift in focus from doing everything yourself to asking for my help, an act that will strengthen the connection you have with me in order to deal with any situation in a way that you wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Enjoy your semester, and enjoy your students' company. Help them to learn and to grow, and make the time that they spend in your class worthwhile. And have fun.