Well, I kind of made it last year! For those of you that journeyed with me, thank you, and I'm sorry I didn't finish. Life gets busy and it sort of became an out of sight, out of mind kind of thing...unfortunately.
I honestly wasn't really planning on starting it back up again. Satan has a way of taking a good thing and threading lies through it. I'll be completely honest with you, not many people commented on my posts and I sort of felt like I was doing it for nothing. Should have realized Satan's schemes quicker. I've been very surprised by the number of people who have mentioned the blog recently and asked me if I was planning on doing it again. I think that's God's way of telling me I should reconsider.
So, here I am. School is beginning and there's no better time to pick this back up. I'll revamp the dares I redid last year and begin working on the new dares. But I will need your help! The Love Dare book offers all kinds of great dares for married couples, but let's be honest, that kind of love does not always apply to our students. So, I'll need you to help me out with dares that you think are applicable to teachers... what do you think we need to work on the most?
A Quick Refresher...
This is taken from my very first post on this blog, just about a year ago. I went back to it to remind myself what my initial goal was...
You quickly realize when you are teacher that the one thing above everything else that your students need is love. Many students practically cry out for it on a daily basis. And they all have different reasons. I've found that many of my students do not receive the love they deserve at home--which I'm sure is the case for many teachers these days. Even the ones who do receive adequate love desire to feel accepted and a sense of belonging. What better way to care for our students than to love them?....
I'm going to go along with the "Love Dare" book and tweak it to fit the needs of a teacher attempting to love those sometimes-not-so-lovable students (as well as those that are just easy to love!). My hope is to have fellow teachers post about how they are carrying out each week's dare with their students {being careful not to breach confidentiality!} I love to learn from my fellow teachers! ...
This is my warning that although I may be an English teacher, I will not always compose my sentences correctly, and I will probably get caught up in what I'm saying and forget to add punctuation and do a lot of "dot dot dot" and use some sort of improper English...forgive me.
The goal is simply to love.
Will you join me?
First dare will be up this weekend. Hope the year is starting off well!! God Bless!
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