If You Have Faith, Anything Is Possible.

A few years ago at Christmas, my mom gave me a bracelet and on it were the words "If you have faith, anything is possible..." I have sort of taken this on as my personal mantra. I tell myself this every day. At the time she gave it to me, I was unsure of my future, I wasn't in school, and I wasn't confident in any choices that I was making. She gave me this and I really starting thinking on what gives me my faith and where my faith could take me. I did some major soul searching and realized that my place is with children. When I realized this, I immediately enrolled in school and starting working hard to achieve my goal of being a teacher and a coach.

I could let myself get down about being behind in school, about not realizing what I wanted out of life, who I wanted to be, what my passion was, but I have faith in myself every day that I am doing the right thing now. I have faith that I am going to be a great teacher. That I have a passion and a desire that can change lives. I want to make a difference. My goal (for the near future, at least) is to teach at a charter school in St. Louis or Kansas City. I feel like I can provide students with an enthusiasm and a desire to learn, and be decent people, who strive to be successful. I went through some lows of not caring about what happened to me in the future, or where my life took me, and that effected my life in so many negative ways. I feel like I can catch kids before they get the the point I was at, and instill a desire to learn and be successful in them.

Those seven little words keep me going every day. I have faith. I have faith in myself, I have faith in the children I will one day teach, I have faith in humanity, and I have faith in God. That is all I need to get me from one day to the next, from one hurdle to the next.