Charlize is one of the fast-learners that I have in my class. She is shy, most of the time, hesitant to mingle and play with the other kids.She doesn't get well easily with new faces and inside the Galileo room were two- new faces, new teachers under training to take-over Galileo Dept. this school year. Yes, I'm leaving Galileo to transfer to Preschool, yep! I'm teaching the Kinder Level.At times like this she often does one of the most dreadful things for teachers, yep! you're right! She cries. And that was what she's exactly doing when I saw her outside the Galileo room. Her mom was talking to her and I can sense her disappointment with her daughter. I saw relief on her face when she saw me coming. I asked Charlize why she's crying, held her hand and led her inside the Galileo room. The room was packed and I introduce her to the new teachers, it wasn't part of my plan to sit there and assist I have other things in my mind, a lot actually!
She was carrying a small bucket with shells and rocks from their last beach outing. She stopped at my table when she saw the shells inside an open box on my table. Noticing it I asked her if she likes it. This led us at the back room to get the others shells and beads that I'm keeping for the Math Art class. We made a key-chain out of shells. Going back for her Galileo session, I pulled my table drawer and look for a plastic to secure the beads that I gave her. I got the one with a rosary inside. Seeing the look on her face, I gave it to her as well. The Rosary is nice, it's made up of white and pink shinning beads. It was given to me by one of my students grandmother, who thought that I'm a catholic. Not wanting to hurt her feelings I kept the gift.
Charlize has warmed-up already, she's now smiling and telling stories. She even played hide and seek with 3-year old Annika. =) While doing her worksheet, she held the cross that was hanging from her neck. Looking at me she asked, "Who loves God?" I was surprised but I answered; "Me! I do love God." asking her back I said, "What about you? Do you love God?". Smiling at me, she nodded and went back to her writing. Then she paused and said, "Do you know that God loves the bad guys?". I nodded. She continued, "He loves everybody so much that He even loves the bad guys." I answered; "Yes, that's right. He loves everybody so much that even the bad guys wants to be good because they want Jesus to love them even more." She looked at me and nodded.
It was such an eternal instant. A moment that I would never forget whenever I see Charlize inside the Galileo room. She proved to me that nobody is too young to understand the gospel. She made me realized that nothing is complicated about God's love. He loves me just because. If God loves everybody, even the bad guys (you and me included), the mind boggling question is "Who loves God?" What about you? Do you love God? Your answer is like mine right, YES! But are you sure?
If you love God why aren't you praying? why aren't you reading the Bible? Why is it so hard for you to wake up in the morning to do your devotion? Why do you skip church and go to the mall instead? why did you take that 2-weeks leave and reasoned out that you need rest? why? Does God gets tired of loving you?
God will never ever get tired of loving you and me. We won't be able to love God as He loves us but He can teach us to love in exactly the same manner as He does. Unselfishly, unconditionally...
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