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By Carol Gray
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Most people don’t consider themselves qualified to impart skills or knowledge to anyone. Yet on a daily basis, you are doing just that. Whether you are aware of it or not, somebody is watching you. Think about it! Are you a parent with small inquisitive children, do you have those challenging teenagers, or do you have eager young adults? Regardless of which category you fit into, you are a teacher. Children watch you like a hawk don’t they? They are copy cats, too. As I’m writing this, article, my mind went back to “The Andy Griffin Show.” I can see Andy Taylor picking up a rock and throwing it, and Opy Taylor imitates him exactly. Isn’t that a great example on teaching; like father like son?
Can you think of things your parents taught you when you was a child? I bet you can. Where they all good, of course not; neither where they all bad? Try it. The Television show, “Sesame Street” is an excellent training tool for the little ones. The show captivates the little ones attention by using--funny characters, songs, and animals to capture their minds. Whatever you put into your eyes and ears, will become a part of your mind, also. Teachers are everywhere.
I guess you are thinking to yourself, what does teaching have to do with seeding? Stay with me, and I’ll help you understand. Believe it or not, teaching is sowing. It is a principle that is misunderstood by many, but God the creator said, “As long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest time.” Do you realize that the Internet is a teaching tool? I’m learning about health and nutrition, myself. You can choose to plant good seed or bad seed. Thousands of people pull up websites filled with porn everyday. Unfortunately they don’t realize that they are teaching their bodies how to participate in different acts. While watching a television show recently about “Predators” this truth of seed planting really got my attention. These men would chat over the Internet with minors for days and hours. They would talk porn, converse in a manner that was inappropriate, and make plans to meet. I was amazed; I mean absolutely amazed. They couldn’t give a reason for their behavior. Maybe they didn’t know they were planting seeds that would eventually produce a harvest. What they did do, however, was make excuses by blaming someone else for what they where doing. No way, these men have spent hours looking, with their natural eyes, at the negative seeds. How does adulterous relationships happen, a seed for that harvest has to be planted first. Tell me this, how do you keep a happy family, have an honor roll student or have good relationships? The answer has not changed at all. It’s still the same—you sow seeds for it. I’m writing about teaching. It’s not isolated to just the classroom environment. Teachers are everywhere.
The best teacher that every lived, has given us explicit instructions to follow. To be exact, He gave us sixty-six books of seed instructions. Wow!
Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) says, “Train up a child in the way that he should go…he will not depart from it.
As a child growing up in South Carolina, my father and mother took me to church. It didn’t matter whether it was Tuesday night Bible study, Friday night prayer service or Sunday morning worship service. They took me with them to church. Yep, took me. Now that I’m an adult, that training, teaching, imparting, and instructing is still with me, over five decades later. It was going to Sunday school, where I learned to recite The Lord’s Prayer and Psalms 23. I learned to sing, “Jesus loves me…I know, for the Bible tells me so, little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is strong. How many children do you think know things like this today? I can tell you the number is, too, small why, because negative training is going on instead. Parents are busy doing other things—sleeping late, shopping, cleaning and washing their cars. These things are important, but children have to be trained when these things should be done. But we need to get back to basics. Teach priorities so order is established in their lives. Show and tell; teachers are everywhere.
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There were a few capitalization and punctuation errors you might want to watch for next time. Also, three times you used the word "where" for "were." You opened one paragraph saying the reader was probably wondering what teaching has to do with seeding, but you hadn't mentioned seeding yet. Instead of phrasing it as a question, you could have stated that there is a relationship between teaching and seeding and then gone on to explain.
I enjoyed reading your article and being reminded that I am teaching others by my actions and with my words! Thank you!