My ten year old daughter has had wonderful teachers in her life. Teachers who have listened, cared, and prayed for her during difficult times. There actions have really impacted and shaped her life.
Recently, one of her teachers has experienced a difficult season in her life. There has been disappointment and loss. As these events came up I processed them with my daughter. For the most part, her response has been to pray for her teacher, which is a good response.
However, two weeks ago my daughter was moved to do something, but she didn’t know what to do. Franticly, she ran up stairs and asked, “Dad, what should I do?” This was something I was not going to figure out for her. So, I told her to go to her room, pray, and ask God what she was supposed to do.
After praying for a while, she ran up stairs and shouted, “DAD, I GOT IT! WE NEED TO MAKE A VIDEO!”
So, last night we made a video. We invited her classmates. Danced a bit on the school’s playground. And hopefully blessed a teacher, who has blessed a room full of students so much. [By the way, she showed up unexpectedly when we were shooting the video. I told the kids this was one time it was okay to lie.]
I was thinking, it might had been easier to send a card, but I don’t think sending a card would have meant as much as this video did. Plus we got to enjoy ice-cream after.
Here’s the video…