Christmas Day is Thursday. The preceding is brought to by the East Coast Syndicate that runs the Christmas Season.
Gifts are given and received in honor of The Greatest Gift Ever Given, whose birth is celebrated on Christmas. Linus spoke eloquently of this in Charlie Brown Christmas.
Everyone has gifts they were given and received without any conscious thought. Sometimes, it is great intellectual prowess, with limited physical ability. Sometimes, it is the body that can do anything with incredible ease, and the intellect of granite. The mixture is somewhere in between for almost all of us.
An intellectual person can develop their body, or the psychomotor natural can chisel the granite in their brain into something beautiful. How does this happen?
Teachers, sometimes in the form of a coach, are all about gifts. The gift they have, teaching the willing to improve something they don't have. Helping someone discover what they can do is the essence. Doing this while sacrificing self, sacrificing time, and keeping an objective eye on what needs to be taught. It's all a part of teaching.
A coach is a teacher. A teacher is a coach. Their jobs exist to develop gifts.
To all teachers and coaches everywhere, Merry Christmas. As you open your gifts, remember the gifts given to you to develop.
So...am I off base?
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