The Truth is hiding!!

Sometimes I sit and wonder (I know I do it all the time, but work with me here) just what it is that make people so scared to face up to their convictions and actually say what needs to be said (the truth) instead of making a story that seems on the surface so true but is filled with lies and deceit once looked into.

On more than one occasion this week I have had to deal with serious and sometimes malicious rumour. What is sad is that if the truth was spoken people involved would see the clarity of the situation and how to come to a solution so that everybody could move on.

What's worse is that for some reason, I have had to deal with this because God choose me to be a leader. He choose me to stand up for people, stand up for the morals that I have placed on my life because of the life he is guiding me to lead and to face the criticism that comes with this.

I am not a saint, I am not a perfect person, but I strive to live by three philosophies and these are what they are:

Honesty: To be honest to God, Myself and to Others

Respect: To respect myself, my Life, Everyone that comes into my life and to respect their choices even if I do occasionally offer them guidance or an alternative...

Try my Best/Integrity: To try my best in everything means to not stop before the finish line when I have to finish the race (life) and to not take for granted that if I don't I am selling out on not only God and myself, but all those people who rely on me to be a good leader.

I don't ask for much... just for people to be honest, have integrity and treat people how they would want to be treated...

Please be at least Honest!

mmmmm when people pay out my chosen career

I happen to have chosen a career that I feel is both the most noble and also the most hated position in communities, well at least that's how it feels sometimes. Teaching for me is about inspiring and teaching young people to not only live life to the fullest and take every opportunity but to also do it to the best of their ability, learning how to apply lifeskills learnt to lifeskills living....

So I stumbled across this great quote tonight which I believe might just put this job into perspective. My Career is the forerunner to every other career, for it is the humble people who give up their lives and time to make sure that people can choose a career they believe they are born to do.

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

~Donald D. Quinn