Bell to Bell: A Get-Through-Today Devotional for Teachers

I know that if you’re a teacher, there have been days when you have lived from minute to minute or bell to bell. Just get through this class, just get through to lunch. Just make it until the last bell.

This devotional is for those days. This is not a devotional for the 180 day school year. This is not a one hundred day devotional, a forty day devotional, a thirty day devotional. This is a Get-Through-Today devotional.

Broken down into periods, this book is designed to help you make it through just one day, because too often as teachers we enter survival mode as soon as the first bell rings.

Maybe you were late to first period, maybe you spilled half your coffee in the hall, maybe you were asked to cover a class during your planning and you’re wondering how you’re going to grade a hundred essays and record them before the end of the day. Maybe the principal has stopped in for a surprise evaluation.

Little things, big things, how do we let go and move on to the next thing? How do we hold on to the things that matter? Ask yourself this: why are you a teacher? If you know deep in your heart that the answer to that question is that you have been called to teach, if you understand with every fiber of your being that teaching is a calling, then ask yourself this: who has called you?

You know the answer to that. He was a teacher too. And what we can learn from Jesus’ own experiences, will help us not only get through today, but every day. You were never meant to live from bell to bell. It’s time to embrace your calling once again.