Lesson #5

Today I taught about Leading in the Lord's Way. It was a good lesson. I had woken up this morning not feeling very well, but by afternoon I was a little better. I got to church and started feeling weird again, but I stayed and taught.
We had a good discussion about leaders and different ways that leaders have influenced our lives. I only had half an hour to teach, so I was glad for that. I still felt very scatterbrained and unorganized, even though I'd read the lesson many times and knew what it was about. I was nervous, and my hands kept shaking. I had to hold on to the podium to keep them occupied so that I could think of what was going on. Someone commented to me later, that I don't seem nervous at all when I'm teaching. I replied that I don't know why that is, I get nervous every time I have to teach (and added that when I play the piano or organ in public I STILL get nervous doing that too... and I've been playing for 22 years!)
After church, I asked my roommate how she really thought it was. She said that it was really good, and the flow of it was perfect. I commented that maybe as long as I feel scatterbrained about my lessons, that means they went well; if I didn't feel scatterbrained, then maybe it didn't go so well.