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Something I did that opened a door…
I was applying for a teaching job in Vancouver (when are there ever teaching jobs in Vancouver). Much competition. I got an interview. I had only one year’s experience.It was a grade one class in Prince George. In talking to my mom, she told me I MUST tell the principal something a parent had said to me at the end of the year. This mother came to me to say that she and her husband “appreciated the high moral stand” I had taken. I was not sure what she could have meant by that.
One day her daughter was scared and spooked. She said, with big eyes, that at church she had been told that the devil was all around us. I asked her if she thought that God was everywhere, and she did. I asked her if she thought that anything could be stronger than God. She didn’t. That brought a big smile and she wasn’t spooked anymore. I never figured out exactly what the mother could have been referring to with her comment, unless it was that. But my mom insisted it was a good idea to pass along that comment to the principal. So as awkward as I felt about it, I trusted my mom and passed it on. This principal hired me and we had a great relationship as long as I was there. I learned a lot from him.
I guess the lesson might be that, although you really should not lay things on people, you don’t always have to make a secret out of your spiritual leanings.
Performing gives so many opportunities throughout my community of Saint Johns, New Brunswick.. Here’s the impact I found it was having.
In one of them I was asked what shore excursions I like to take. “Sitting on a park bench and talking to strangers. “ The audience of about 200 people went crazy. That phrase was repeatedly alluded to throughout the cruise by MC’s and passengers, and on the streets of the cities we visited. This resulted in establishing quite a following on the cruise. People told me later that I was one of the highlights of their cruise.