Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
What Every Teacher Needs to Hear Today
Patient endurance. It's what every educator needs, and today's heartfelt tribute celebrates the remarkable individuals shaping our future through teaching. Drawing from personal connections—a father who dedicated his life to education and a wife who serves as an education assistant—Danny Mac delivers a genuine message of appreciation for teachers everywhere.
For everyone who has ever taught, or been taught by someone special, this five-minute reflection offers a moment to appreciate the immeasurable impact of those who pour truth, encouragement, love, and wisdom into young hearts. Join us tomorrow for another uplifting start to your day with Starting Right with Danny Mac.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax and let me help you start your day right. Good morning everybody. Today I would like to dedicate this episode to a very special group of people. I want to say thank you to all of you who are teachers. Whether you're teaching in public school or Christian school or homeschooling your children, you're giving them truth and encouragement. That's helping them to become what they should and could be when they grow up.
Speaker 1:Teachers have a very special place in my heart. My dad was one. He taught for all of his adult life elementary school, high school and then eventually as an administrator in the board office. He was heavily involved in school and teaching, and he believed in pouring truth into young people and trying to shape their lives. When I graduated from high school, I went off to university and my first thought was to become a teacher as well. While I didn't wind up being a teacher, it still has a place in my heart and I teach in different ways other than in schools. My wife she's an education assistant. She works in elementary schools with primary age students and has done so for many years now. She loves it. She loves the children.
Speaker 1:But I know also that it's not always easy being a teacher, particularly today. There are so many challenges that you face and so many restrictions, particularly if you are in public school. Things that you cannot say and you cannot do, and things that they want you to say and they want you to do that you to do that don't really fit quite right with what you believe. There's a challenge for you there today, and yet you're still there because you love the children and you care about what happens to them. There are many challenges for teachers right now, no matter where you're teaching at home or in a Christian school or on a public school the challenges are very real there for you, and so I have just one verse for you today to help you, because I know it's not always easy. It can be tremendously rewarding, but it's not always easy. The verse is found in Hebrews 10, verse 36. It tells us that patient endurance is what you need now so that you will continue to do God's will. Teachers, you need that patient endurance every day. I know it's not always fun, I know it's not always easy, but I know as well that, for most of you, your heart goes out to many of the children that you work with and you love being able to impact their lives, and God has placed you where you are so that you can do exactly that.
Speaker 1:I have a story for all of you teachers today that I think many of you will be able to relate to. At least the primary school grade teachers you will be able to relate to this story today. I think you will really like it. It's about a young kindergarten student named Jason. His teacher saw him one day struggling to get his boots pulled on and he asked his teacher to help him. Well, it was easy to see that he needed help because, with her pulling and him pushing the boots, still didn't want to go on.
Speaker 1:When the second boot was finally on, she had really started to work up a sweat and she almost whimpered when Jason said teacher, they're on the wrong feet. Whimpered when Jason said teacher, they're on the wrong feet. She looked and sure enough they were, and it wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on, this time on the right feet. And then he announced these are not my boots. She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream Jason, why didn't you say so, like she wanted to? And once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off of his feet. Then he looked up at her and said they're my brother's boots. My mom made me wear them today. She didn't know if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up all of the grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots back on his feet again. Then she said now, jason, where are your mittens? Jason lifted his sweet face up to her and said I stuffed them in the toes of my boots. You got a feel for that, teacher.
Speaker 1:You really do, and I believe that virtually every teacher on the planet has a story somewhat similar to this one how a child was able to bring them to the verge of tears and laughter at the same time.
Speaker 1:Kids can do that, and those of you who have dedicated your lives to speaking truth into these young children, I pray that God will bless you and work through you and give you insight and wisdom as to what to say and how to say it, so that the important truths get in and these children will never forget some of the things that you've said and done for them. So today, teachers, I honor you for all of the good things you're doing, the love, the grace, the mercy, the wisdom and the understanding that you show every day and you pour into the lives of these young people. God bless you. Remember what God's Word says Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. I hope you have a wonderful day, my friends, and we will talk again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
