Thank you Mr. Kelke

On the way home today, I was thinking about our local town council. They need to do better. for some reason, I instantly thought of sixth grade.

I had Mr. Kelke. He was a really good teacher. He wasn't overly funny, or mean, or overly anything for that matter. He was fair, and had high expectations. In the spring, the city had a city wide track meet for the grade schools. somehow, I made the 4 x 50 yard dash. I was the starting leg of our foursome. when we went to the track to practice, I tried what I thought was hard. He came up to me after one of our practice runs, and told me to really pop up off the line and go. I thought I had, but I told him I would. Our next practice run, I thought I did better, but Mr. Kelke came up to me after I made my exchange, and told me I need to really pop up and run hard. Now this time I was sure I had run really well, but I said I would try. I concentrated, and tried. after this run however, Mr. Kelke came over to me, and was gentle, but told me that I need to do even better. I cried, but It stirred me to concentrate even harder on our next practice run. I didn't get any feedback after that run, and we all moved on to what ever else we had to do. when the day of the meet came, and it was time for our event, I lined up on the inside lane. We had to stay in our lanes, because it was only 200 yards total. We started out behind everyone else because of the turn. I probably concentrated harder than I ever had on anything up to that point. I can't tell you if I was the fastest one in my leg of the run, because I was concentrating on the run and the exchange (which was flawless, at least from my memory). but after the exchange, I watched the rest of the race. At the beginning of my leg, we were "behind" everyone else, but at the end of the second leg where we hit the straight away, we were about 20 feet in front of all the other teams. Legs two and three didn't let up an inch, and our team totally smashed the other teams. Thanks, Mr. Kelke. I'm sure I met my potential that day.

Who ever is reading this.....go out and do better!

Heavy Reavy

Today I went to church to pray really, really early. We are having a 24-7 prayer time, and I signed up for a really early time. anyway...

While singing, That's how I like to pray best, God revealed to me that I just need to let him shine through. Not block him. And while he was revealing this to me, and I was singing, I had my eyes closed. I suddenly became very aware that I could tell where the lights were, and where they were shining at.

It was like a revelation. Though there are many in this world that refuse to open their eyes to God, They can still see His light, when we let it shine through us. This Little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.