Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Where's my Results?!

"How long till this education money that I'm paying pays off for us?"
It's a question that some parents ask out load, and some inside their mind only. Here is one
answer.


Dear Parents,

There are five segments in the education process, through which each of us must pass.
We have our sowing time, growing time, weeding time, irrigation time, and finally the harvest. As parents, and educators, we wish that sowing time and harvest time would occur the same day in every learning situation. But most often there is much time between these stages. "When can I reap he benefits of what I have sown today?" Well, sometimes not for many years. That is why it is so important that in teaching we are consistent in our "sowing," always teaching the right things.
J.A. St. John said it this way, "The principals and ideas he (the student) puts into his mind in youth lie there, it may be, for many years apparently unprolific. But nothing dies. There is a process going on unseen, and by the touch of circumstances, the man springs forth into strength, he knows not how, as if by miracle. But after all, he only reaps as he had sown."
We are teaching for immediate results, and in 90% of our academic and spiritual areas—receiving them. Yet, some of what we teach is spiritual sowing, or weeding, or watering that must wait for a special harvest day. It is teaching that will spring forth when needed the most.
This is one of the most powerful things about Christian education—that it effects the life forever.

Joe Tarr,
Principal

1 comment:

lwr said...

YES I REMEMBER YOU JOE, SO HOW ARE YOU JOE? HEY I'VE PRAYED FOR YOUR FAMILY MORE THAN ONCE! YES THE LORD LOOKS LIKE HE HAS BLESSED YOU, THE KIDS, AND YOUR WIFE KIM. GREAT TO SEE THAT YOUR STILL IN THE MINISTRY, SINCE MANY ARE GONE TODAY.
HEY I NEED TO THANK YOU FOR BEING RUDE YEARS AGO, AFTER I CALLED THREE TIMES CHECKING UP ON A GIRL NAMED AMBER, YES THE LORD HAS BLESSED ME WITH FAMILY AND I'VE BECOME A VERY WEALTHY MAN! JOE I'VE FORGIVEN YOU I MAY NOT SEE YOU AGAIN UNTIL THE TRUMP. SOUNDS, UNTIL THEN MAY CHRIST GRANT YOU WISDOM, VIRTUE, AND MOST OF ALL CHARITY!! SEE YOU THEN LARRY, BETSY, AND WESLY ROBINSON