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Anonymous
Hello there!
First, I am asking that you pray for my brother Anthony. Please pray that Christ will remove the spirit of addiction and that he would surrender to get help and turn his life to Christ. Next, I am asking for all of you to pray for me. I have been ridiculed and bullied all my life because of my African/strong facial features, deep voice, and to top it off, I have a learning disability. However, God has been so good to me, but the culmination of repeated bullying has caused complex trauma, fear of man, and anxiety. You cannot fathom. It has been tremendously crippling. I am deeply wounded about my past and it literally crippled me to not be myself because I deeply care about how others see me. In the work force, I have experienced severe ridicule because of my differences, and it has caused me a great deal of anxiety to the point that I cannot articulate myself during teacher observations (I am a teacher teaching in the inner city and THE TEACHERS get observed from the district and critiqued once a year for school renewal). I have noticed as an educator that when the bullying from co-workers is too much and if I’m mocked, I tend to leave the job not learning the lesson that Christ wants me to learn which is for Him to prevail through me despite how people see me (mainly coming from how I see myself. Projection). Yes. That is the lesson. I can feel it!
So, I am currently teaching as a 1st grade teacher in an inner-city school and I’m literally the butt of some of the teachers and administrators jokes at work. They dote and compliment each other for their talents (especially my principal dotes on other teachers in front of everyone) but the opinion they have of me is low. My principal and some teachers have mocked me for not being technology literate (part of my learning disability) and having a loud voice (born with a deep voice). Because of the microaggressions, the nature of the school culture, and being mocked, it is extremely, and I mean extremely hard to prevail when you have complex trauma for other life events. Christ told me to go to EMDR therapy and I have listened and been in therapy for 3 years. PRAISE GOD! However, being at this teaching job is toxic for me and I want to learn the lesson before I depart in June. We have a school observation on Tuesday between the hours of 8 am to 12 pm and I want Christ to prevail in all the teachers. My principal puts tons of pressure on us to do well and when I was observed last year, I was so nervous that I could not articulate myself. It deepened her low opinion of me, and she treats me as such. Please if you have the time, please pray for me to rely on Christ alone during my observation. MAY HE BE IN MY CLASSROOM IN JESUS NAME!! May he get the victory in me! May He prevail in my room on Tuesday, May 3rd and always. Please pray that I will be myself but my best self (deep voice and uniquely me) for the remainder of the school year before I depart. I must learn this lesson that Christ is in me despite my differences. To GOD BE THE GLORY, IN JESUS NAME, AMEN!