{"id":8496,"date":"2021-04-30T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"built-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"BUILT UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ephesians 4:29 &#8211; &#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white\">Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">Every once in a while I am reminded of the incredible power of words for building others up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">This afternoon I was walking alongside one of my 8th grade students in the hallway and she took the opportunity to say this:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">&#8220;Do you think you would ever be interested in teaching another class? I don&#8217;t mean to put pressure on you or anything, but would you?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I asked her what she meant and she replied with the utmost sincerity, &#8220;Well, I just feel like it&#8217;s a shame we only had you as a teacher for one semester &#8211; I feel like I have so much more I could learn from you.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I didn&#8217;t know how much I needed to hear something like that.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">Those words didn&#8217;t just make my day &#8211; they are going to be enough to carry me to May 27th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">And they almost made me forget that just the period before some anonymous student had found opportunity to sneak a wad of wet paper towel into my pants pocket on his way out of the classroom &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephesians 4:29 &#8211; &#8220;Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.&#8221; Every once in a while I am reminded of the incredible power of words for building others up. This afternoon I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}