POWER OF A TEACHER’S WASTED DAY
We never know what kind of influence we are going to have on someone. During World War II, a woman received a letter from a soldier she didn’t know. His name was Murray and he wrote from the battlefield. Murray wrote that he had once been in her Sunday School class, and she had spoken about Christ as a hero for boys. He mentioned the date when this woman’s words had altered his whole perspective on life. This woman had kept a diary all of her life, so she turned to the date that Murray had mentioned. She learned that she had come home that Sunday discouraged, and thought about giving up teaching Sunday School. The entry for that day read: “Had an awful time. The boys were so restless. I am not cut out for this kind of thing. I had to take two classes together. No one listened, except at the end, a boy from the…
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