Sharing in Circle

This morning in circle, Miguel shared a piece of the New Testament on loving your enemies -

Love for Enemies

But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.  If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn them the other also.  If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.  Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.  Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Luke 6:27-31

Generally when passages are read, there are a couple of examples given that show application of the passages.  So I decided to give an application of this passage for the boys.  Although I won't share here the example of love for enemies (because it is not MY story to share but one that greatly influenced me), it deeply impacted the boys and they all thanked me after sharing.

Sharing at medium boys circle

We headed to breakfast and then to school where I stopped in Profe Ramon's class to help the students study for 1/2 hour before they had to take their test.  One girl was crying...I'm guessing because she felt she wasn't adequately prepared for the test.  When the test began, I quietly excused myself to go work with Skarleth Michell on her reading.  She is the only girl I did not turn over to Rachel when I was needed for larger time periods in teaching math because she has a difficult time dealing with change.  I hung on to her as a student hoping that a long term volunteer would be coming in who would be able to take her (minimizing change on her).

When reading was finished, we headed to lunch with the children and then spent the afternoon in the yard with the medium boys because school was let out for the afternoon for the elementary grades.  Yes I know, if you've been reading my blogs you've seen a lot of NO SCHOOL days.  There are no such things as substitute teachers here, so if a teacher is sick, there is no school that day for that particular class.

After hanging out in the yards, we headed to supper with the boys.  They let us know that they'd most likely be watching a movie when they got done taking showers and we were more than welcome to come, but it decided to downpour right around that time, so we hung back at the room and the kids played games with each other until it was time to turn in for the night.