Davy Phipps

Miss Seal was a good second-grade teacher.  Although I can’t remember a thing that I learned in the second grade, I made it through college, so I must have learned enough in the second grade.  In the second grade, the favorite time of the day was recess.  There were several boys that were great at softball, and they were the envy of all of the rest of us boys.  And then there was Davy Phipps.  He was awkward (even more than me) and had crooked teeth.  But Davy had a gift that no other boy had in the second grade.  Davy had such bad eyes that his glasses looked like the bottoms of coke bottles.  And at recess, he would let us use his glasses to focus the sun and burn leaves.  Great fun, although Davy couldn’t see what was going on.  Hey, everyone in life has a gift.  You may not think that you have a gift, but you do.  Just try everything and you are bound to find something that you are good at.  And then use that gift to be a blessing to others.  Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might …”  Whatever your talent is, do it to the best of your ability! Even if it is burning leaves at recess.