<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX38muj4Dq7iimzzzXDeaCxAC9fH-WSuvet_bypYFhnTlLOLCEsQ8Tbr-S4MBD4ObKvu_py2PazIBkwZFGz8CTRIxZ6QRMdi8KvIsaSJoN38MzWAgHqUUjA7JjGem29vqZZ-iZ9Kr9t5gHTgBvUQqQobhiAssDziQ2tr8Gs8H2NRvUGLDOYX-oPZ-QoUQ/s2200/images__largepreview__.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="2200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX38muj4Dq7iimzzzXDeaCxAC9fH-WSuvet_bypYFhnTlLOLCEsQ8Tbr-S4MBD4ObKvu_py2PazIBkwZFGz8CTRIxZ6QRMdi8KvIsaSJoN38MzWAgHqUUjA7JjGem29vqZZ-iZ9Kr9t5gHTgBvUQqQobhiAssDziQ2tr8Gs8H2NRvUGLDOYX-oPZ-QoUQ/s320/images__largepreview__.webp" width="320" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who has been a great teacher in your life?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On this Sunday when we’re celebrating the ministry of St Paul's Christian Early Learning Center (CELC), Jesus shows us what a great teacher looks like.&nbsp; As he interacts with Nicodemus, Jesus reveals himself as the one who</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- Knows us better than we know ourselves</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- Tells us what we need to hear and not what we want to hear&nbsp;</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- Has patience with us as we work through it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What this means is that when we pray, we pray to the one who knows us better than we know ourselves.&nbsp; He also knows that figuring it out takes time, especially to process what we didn't want to hear.&nbsp; This plays itself out powerfully in Nicodemus' life, just as in our own.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The art work is by painter&nbsp;<a href="https://lesteryocum.com/product/original-painting-nicodemus-at-the-tomb/" style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lester Yocum</a>.&nbsp; A quite rare painting showing the lesser known but just as important interaction of Nicodemus later in the Gospel of John, when he helps bury Jesus.</p><p></p>