A Word To Teachers (3)

I press on toward the goal.
Philippians 3:14

If you want to become a change agent, you yourself must change!
And you're never too old to do that.
Change has nothing to do with your age and everything to do with your attitude.
"Well, I'm just getting too old," you say. How old is too old? Have you died? "No," you say, "I'm still alive." Good! Then learn - or you'll die mentally.
Older people can be excellent learners. Somewhere along the line we've taken in the mistaken idea that you can't teach an old dog new tricks - which is true if you're teaching dogs and if you're teaching tricks. But you are not in the business of either one, are you?
Some folks in their 20's are dead in the head, while others in their 80's are plugged in and going places.
The apostle Paul was.
Near the end of his life, when most people are looking for rocking chairs, he wrote: "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" (Philippians 3:13-14 ).
Paul was neither impressed by his successes nor intimidated by his failures. He learned from his past, but he refused to live in it. His goal was always before him. And he was just as properly related to the present.
He said, "I press on."
Every day when Paul's eyes opened he thought, "It's a new day full of possibilities; Lord help me to max every moment!"
As they say, "The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune" - but only if you keep practicing and stay in shape!