{"id":3993,"date":"2007-07-29T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2007-07-29T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T19:54:56","slug":"teach-me-diligently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/teach-me-diligently\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach me diligently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been called as Gospel Doctrine teacher. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last time I had this calling was 11 years ago. I was a cocky young upstart who relished the prospect of teaching The Gospel According to Kathy. (The one true gospel.) Tired of substandard Sunday School instruction, I set out to whip everyone into shape. <\/p>\n<p>My class members were very kind. They took the good and graciously overlooked the bad. They smiled at me, answered my questions, and thanked me for my efforts. <\/p>\n<p>I hope my new class will do the same. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t deserve such kindness, according to the law of restoration. Despite my gratitude for charitable class members back when I was a teacher, once I was released I promptly resumed my snooty silent (and not-so-silent) criticism of those folks called to teach me.  <\/p>\n<p>And bad karma aside, while don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m quite as cocky as I used to be, I still have all kinds of weaknesses as a teacher. All of which will inevitably be on display at the front of the classroom. <\/p>\n<p>But maybe with your help I can do a bit of damage control. Awareness is the first step to change. So tell me, what do you appreciate in a Gospel Doctrine teacher? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been called as Gospel Doctrine teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}