Angels in the Classroom
A pastor read a letter from an elementary school
teacher who attended East Hill Church. The gist of
the letter was as follows:
Last school year, her classroom was made up of little
third graders, every one of which came from either a
single parent family, or a dysfunctional family, was
undernourished and/or uncared for, lived in an
abusive home and was either beaten, bruised, or
raped by other family members; one little girl's dad
died of aids, and the list goes on.
Her heart bled for these kids. Before the '99-2000
school year started, she and her husband went to her
classroom and prayed over each desk in the room.
They prayed that God would place an angel behind each
and every child throughout the coming year to watch
over them and protect them. A month or so after the
year had started; she gave the kids an assignment to
write about what they would like to be when they grew
up.
Everybody was busy with his or her assignment,
when "Andrew" raised his hand. When she asked him
what he needed, he asked how to spell "mighty."
After telling him how to spell mighty, she asked him
why he needed to know. Andrew said it was because
when he grew up he wanted to be a "mighty man of
God."
When he said this, little "Mark" sitting next to him
asked, "So, what's a mighty man of God?"
The teacher, swallowing back her tears, and
knowing she could not say anything in the
classroom, told Andrew to go ahead and tell Mark what
it was.
So Andrew says, "It's a man who puts on the armor of
God and is a soldier for God."
After observing some conversation between Andrew and
Mark, the teacher, with a lump in her throat,
started to walk away when Andrew motioned with
his little forefinger for her to come closer.
He whispered to her, asking if she believed in
angels. She told him yes, she did.
Then he asked her if she thought people could see
angels, and she said she thought some people
probably could. Andrew said that he did, and he
could see an angel standing behind each kid in the
room.
. . . I don't think there was a dry eye in the church
that night! We need to remember to pray for all of
the teachers, that although there is no prayer in
school that they are dedicated enough to pray for the
protection of God's angels over the lives of their
students.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt, even at work.
~Author Unknown~
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