An excerpt from 4th Grade teacher Jackie Taylor’s sermon this week: “We all have shadows, something about ourselves that we do not like. Not being smart is still my shadow, it never went away and I’m still defensive when people make comments about me not completely understanding something. I was a bad student in elementary school but I worked really hard, caught up to my peers and eventually turned it around. Reading aloud was a huge shadow for me and when I decided that I wanted to become a teacher, I started reading aloud to practice. Sometimes it was to my mom, sometimes it was to myself. I don’t like public speaking, which may come as a surprise since I do it so often, but I do it because I want to get better at it because I know that if I do it over and over again, I’ll be less afraid.