Dear Heaven Maker:
Do you remember the teachers who made a difference in your life?
I do.
Ms. Marshall: My grade two teacher. I’m still in touch with her.
Mr. Boich: My teacher in grades 7 & 8. I always felt he saw me, he saw into me. He expected a lot from me and I rose to meet that standard. I’m still in touch with him.
Father Tony Firetto: He taught the first ever counselling psychology course in my university and I was in that class. The next year he asked me to be his teaching assistant. I’d never dreamt of becoming a teaching assistant. I thought only graduate students did that. He saw something in me and wanted to bring it out.He died at 38, too, too young. I made a vow that I would light a candle in his honour whenever I went into a Catholic church, for the rest of my life….and I’ve done that.
As I’m writing this blog, my memory is flashing on a bunch of other teachers whose names I’ve sadly forgotten.
There have also been teachers in my life outside of academia who deeply impacted me: Bob Branscom, Werner Erhard, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Jack Canfield, my parents, my wife.
What teacher(s) had a large positive influence on you?
I invite you to honour them in a way that brings forward their memory and allows you to experience the gifts they gave you.
You are a part of their Heaven on Earth and they are a part of your heaven on earth.
Watch the video here [have a Kleenex ready for this one]
Thank you,
Martin
Martin Rutte
