I’ve just submerged from a pile of papers.  I spent the weekend pulling work from all of my children's binder notebooks and putting it into their individual file boxes. I know, I’m late…this job is usually done at summer’s end. I was putting our new work on top of last year’s work in their notebooks. How frustrating! Now all is packed away, and notebooks are lean and awaiting more of this year’s efforts.

Pulling last year’s work really helped me. I was starting this lesson push more discouraged than usual. Seeing all of the children's accomplishments really lifted me up.

Most teachers of every venue are probably always striving for more. That might be one of the marks of a teacher.

I wonder if Jesus, the master teacher, ever experienced those feelings.