A child can melt a heart of stone

The phrase "a child can melt a heart of stone" is true, but a child can also twist and break the heart of a teacher. As a teacher or a person we always prejudge people before we get know them and place them in categories like trouble makers, over achievers, teachers' pets, passive students and go with flow kids. So at first I subconsciously placed all my students into some sort of category. However, this is not a good habit, because it limits the expectations you have for the students. If you expect them to be trouble and then all you will ever choose to see is the trouble they cause. So God has taken me and still is taking me on a roller coaster of emotions as he opens my eyes to who these students really are. For example I have one student in second grade who at first is nothing but trouble. She flipped me off and consistently called me pig. She is a student that keeps me wake at night praying . Well my prays have been answered. The teacher made her apologize to me and I saw her at my home with her mom ( my home is a car shop so I see many people). Anyways since those two encounters she has changed. Now she gives me hugs and calls me Jomama and sometimes grandpa, but that's way better than pig. Today she showed me a turtle and fish in the pond, after just teaching her the word turtle. So I pray that God will open my eyes to each student and I will be able to see what He sees.

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