This is why having crazy Elvis lady as your RCIA teacher and main person for your faith formation is not so good.
What you gotta remember about teaching the Faith to the children is that you're not teaching them the way you teach them math; you're acting as a conduit for a body of knowledge that exists apart from you. You are opening up a door to the whole world, to the reality that goes beyond what we can see and hear in front of us, to earthly history and to how that history has been illuminated and transformed by God's action. It's much more like feeding them than like teaching them. You can't make them eat, and you can't digest it for them, and you can't make them play or learn or sleep with the energy generated by digestion. You cook and put it in front of them. It's delicious and you've set the table nicely so they eat it. The rest of it is not up to you.
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Date: 2011-02-21 07:03 pm (UTC)What you gotta remember about teaching the Faith to the children is that you're not teaching them the way you teach them math; you're acting as a conduit for a body of knowledge that exists apart from you. You are opening up a door to the whole world, to the reality that goes beyond what we can see and hear in front of us, to earthly history and to how that history has been illuminated and transformed by God's action. It's much more like feeding them than like teaching them. You can't make them eat, and you can't digest it for them, and you can't make them play or learn or sleep with the energy generated by digestion. You cook and put it in front of them. It's delicious and you've set the table nicely so they eat it. The rest of it is not up to you.