Over the past weekend I had the opportunity to visit with "old" high school friends.  Amazingly, within a couple of minutes it felt as if the feelings of teenage high school status arose.  Can you imagine?  After 40 years of graduating from a small rural high school, a few minutes can turn back the clock and rain down previously assumed stations of life.  Why does that happen?

I am so far removed from the individual that graduated from that rural area 40 years ago.  Fortunately, I had the opportunity to leave the area and immerse into the grown woman I am today.  Although I would have grown up and older anyway, I truly feel it has been the Lord's will for my life to begin my adult journey in different states over 30 years ago.  God gave me an awesome gift in my husband, Gary.  Gary saw in me the potential that I felt was buried within me somewhere and he has aided me with bringing that woman to light.  The only sad note?  Those high school buddies don't know those facets of my personality.  They only know a young girl who was unsure of herself, lacked confidence....and wasn't the popular type.

Is it important for those teenage students we graduated with to see us as intelligent, talented, gifted, happy and properous adults?  I think deep inside our human shell it is....but, I am grateful to remember those feelings once again so that I might continue to be a better person and never make those with whom I come in contact experience those feelings of inadequacy.  As a professionally trained and educated teacher, I have always strived to pass that message along to each student I have taught.  Life is full of lessons.  We experience, we learn, we pass on the fruit of the lesson.  God bless, my friends!