A Simple Prescription of Presence

Last night I watched the story on CBS News about an 8th grade teacher, Dan Stroup, who started writing birthday cards to his students and has continued writing them cards each year! This simple act of presence earned him a spot on national news as well as plaudits from the rest of us who hardly remember our friends of years past!

What a great story and example! It takes him three hours a night to keep up with all this! My first question is how he finds the time ! But the second is not a question. It is WHY he finds the time! Listen, we all find the time to do what we want to do !

Thanks Mr. Stroup for being a constant presence in the lives of your students! It has a value that has no price or cost attached!

By the way, he is from Indianapolis and teaches at a Christian Academy there.  And he handwrites the letters.  This is hard to believe --no wonder he is on the national news--for no other reason except for this thoughtfulness and kindness and putting his pen to the paper!