Kennedy Heyboer

Mrs.Roskamp

La 8 A

14 September 2016

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving                      

thanks to God the father through him.

 Selfless

For me selfless is a big theme that we need to focus on and something that may be challenging for our grade. When we were sitting in faith church and waiting to hear all of the themes that the groups picked out I was anxious. I wasn’t quite sure what our theme would be like, and how our grade would take our theme and put it into practice. We all voted and it came out to be Selfless. Now that we have started school and are learning more about our theme I am really glad that’s what God choose for us because it’s something that people do just out of nowhere. I can apply this theme to my life as an 8th grader at Zeeland Christian school and to my life in the community and in the world.

This year’s theme can apply to my life here at Zeeland Christian School.

I think that this year it will be so easy for us to forget what the theme is and how we can be putting it into practice. Yet there is so many different ways that we can easily be selfless. We can do so something so simple as arranging chairs or asking someone if they need help. Something that may be a little more bit of a stretch is when needing a partner go with someone you don’t normally go with, or during lunch just be with someone who most normally you aren’t hanging out with. It can even be away from school and it should be something you regularly do. Not a lot of us think about how we can be selfless. When we see someone else being selfless we don’t always realize what a big impact there are doing in our lives.

This year’s theme also applies to my life outside of school.

At school we are reminded continually of our theme, which is Selfless. That is a good reminder for us to be selfless to others and keep an eye open for how others are selfless. Once we leave school, it is something that just slips out of our mind, and sports, friends, or any other activity just gets in the way. Selfless isn’t a common thing that is always in our brain and no matter what we are doing we remember to be selfless. We as 8th graders are the total opposite outside of school. Yet while we are doing our other activities, that is the time when it’s most easiest to be selfless, and more people will want to be like you because there are not a lot of people around who are selfless. When we are outside of school and doing something, not too often do we see someone who is being selfless to others. When I see someone doing something to others that is being selfless, it just puts a smile on my face. Knowing that there are people around who care about others first is just amazing to see. One way I see quite frequently, is letting someone else go in line before them. Something just really little no matter if it’s at a restaurant, or at school. One thing I see once in a very while is someone paying for the person behind them. That is something tricky to do, because we all want the money for us. There are so many different little things we can do to be selfless no matter if we get rewarded or not.   

I can apply the theme “selfless” to my life as an 8th grader at Zeeland Christian School and to my life in the community and in the world. God was so God and we could all tell he was in our presence when we were choosing the theme for Zeeland Christian. It took time to really think what would fit best for our grade, and like teachers have said, it might be a little bit of a stretch but that’s okay if we go out of our comfort zone. God is good, and we thank him for how he has been setting examples to be selfless.