Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Pray as you mark ::
Way back, when this blog was young, I posted a piece entitled The everyday spirituality of marking!? (stimulated by a post of Steve Taylor's)
Ever since I have been feeling guilty, for I dismally failed in this attempt at Appropriate Spirituality.
But now I've done it, while marking exams - no less! And it works, for me, I prayed briefly for the 70+ students in the University Intro class, as I marked. (It's best to pray after you mark each student's last question, otherwise I suspect one's impartiality might suffer!) A couple of sentences each, even those whom I could hardly remember much about, but in other cases with more detail.
One reason it worked this time is that "Cecil" the University's much maligned LMS has one brilliant feature, I click on a name in the class list, and up pops a small photo of the student, much better than names for reminding me of who is whom and of their stories.
When I say it worked, I mean not only did I get a warm glow for "being good", but also God used my prayers to challenge me, and I have a couple of things to work on as a result...
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Way back, when this blog was young, I posted a piece entitled The everyday spirituality of marking!? (stimulated by a post of Steve Taylor's)
Ever since I have been feeling guilty, for I dismally failed in this attempt at Appropriate Spirituality.
But now I've done it, while marking exams - no less! And it works, for me, I prayed briefly for the 70+ students in the University Intro class, as I marked. (It's best to pray after you mark each student's last question, otherwise I suspect one's impartiality might suffer!) A couple of sentences each, even those whom I could hardly remember much about, but in other cases with more detail.
One reason it worked this time is that "Cecil" the University's much maligned LMS has one brilliant feature, I click on a name in the class list, and up pops a small photo of the student, much better than names for reminding me of who is whom and of their stories.
When I say it worked, I mean not only did I get a warm glow for "being good", but also God used my prayers to challenge me, and I have a couple of things to work on as a result...
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At our church we are thinking about putting digital photos next to people's names in our church directory - saves a new pastor (or new congregants) much embarrasment when he can't put names to faces.
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June 16, 2005 1:33 PM
Our church is not big enough for that (though if a notorious forgetter of names like me was pastor it would be a good idea!)
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Tim, at
June 16, 2005 4:59 PM
