Happy Monday. What will you teach today?
My mother’s birthday was this month. Had she lived this long, she would have been 118 years old. I have pondered how much she influenced my life. The impact is immeasurable. My meals are prepared like hers. My approach to homemaking, my interaction with people, the way I mother my children, and many more things I do are touched with so much similarity to the way she did things. Oh, how great is the power of influence! One of my daughters gave me a dish towel which says, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.”
We live being watched by others—by people, by security cameras, and the horror of all horrors, even cell phones capture our images. There is no escape! We could accept this as being an opportunity to influence others as we are observed. By the way, if anyone speaks ill of us, we should live so that no one will believe it.
Occasionally, someone will comment that I have been a blessing in her life, for which I am most grateful. I realize that my time on stage as a pastor’s wife and teacher of young girls has passed. However, I refuse to get too old to jump at opportunities to teach.
Currently, we each are on stage …for such a time as this… Let us become more aware of the many times we can be …teachers of good things… daily.
This old poem is still good for us today:
“You are writing a Gospel,
A chapter each day,
By deeds that you do,
By words that you say.
Men read what you write,
Whether faithless or true;
Say, what is the Gospel
According to you?”
– Arthur G. McPhee
by Beverly Hyles
From the Mondays with Beverly blog. Reprinted with permission.
