Kalyan is a naughty boy who is in his 7th standard. He is more interested in activities – like to chatting with his friends, making paper planes, boats, disturbing others during class time etc.- than studying. Suppose he has nothing else to do, he will start asking doubts, to explain his doubts teachers needs ‘patience’ more than knowledge.
In his character, I noted one important quality. One is that he is very pleasant and cheerful in nature and never shows any puckered or morose face to anybody even to the person who punishes him severely. Secondly, he is ready to admit his mistakes when pointed out by anybody. Few days back I was busy with the portion ‘Physical features of Russia’ still I’m unaware why CBSE (central board of syllabus –Indian) give this tough portion to small kids which consumes much time and effort. I was trying my level best to make them understand the topic. In between, I found Kalyan playing with table tennis ball. Anyway I didn’t pay much attention to him, I tried to relax thinking that after all he is not disturbing others. But it did not last long..I lost my temper when I found Kalyan throwing his ball to his friend.But the ball slipped from his hand and with in seconds two naughty ones were grouping and fighting with each other for the ball. After getting the ball back they came back to their seats, started giggling, laughing and passing comments on each other. The whole class was disturbed by this event. There was chaos and confusion in the class. I lost all my control, with full fury I ran towards Kalyan, slapped him, and took away the ball from him. Then I gave a strong warning to all and continued the lesson… At the end of the period Kalyan came with his usual say “Sorry” and pleaded for his ball. I knew him well so I didn’t give it back. I explained to him that if I give him that ball he would continue playing with it again & will not listen to other teachers lecture. He agreed with me and went back saying “Mam’ you are right.” He had a frank smile for me. Really, I thought he will cry for his ball, but his positive answer & smile made me feel sorry for him. To justify myself I told to HIM: “Lord how can I give him scorpion (ball) which is not good for him? That’s why I snatched it from him.” At the same moment lord put forth this in my conscience, “How many times you compelled me to give scorpions for you? How can I give you that? But you were never like Kalyan…you always showed resentment and grumbles against me…why did you do so?” I was stunned. Later HE showered more lights on Kalyan incident…I was thinking… World as a classroom. Many ‘Kalyans’ are there. Yes you and me :) Jesus is taking tough class about “LIFE”. Some of us are chatting (worldly talks) some are making paper boats, planes (Dreams against god’s will) some are disturbing others (by giving temptations to fellow beings, false teachings etc.) some are asking useless doubts (why it happened so? Why you didn’t give me good gifted which I asked for? We don’t know scorpion we asked :)) When class become too noisy to make us concentrate HE give us small punishments. “I rebuke and punish all whom I love”( Rev 3:19.) Even then many showed resentment, grumbling against him… Here we are totally different from ‘my poor Kalyan’ even small boys like him know their mistakes but we, grown ups are not ready to accept our mistakes. We start arguing with God, some leave Him, shows grudge against Him etc. He patiently bears all this and waits for our coming back He wants to come closer to us. In order to reconcile with HIM we need only two drops of tears and a heart admits the mistakes. Yes HE wants an innocent heart from us like my poor Kalyan have! Many times you will fall in to problems or tend to divert from the right path. No problem…stands up and run towards HIM. Teacher is ready to forgive!!! Praise God! Priya Cochin **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
