Teach Them to Look for the One

As school doors open across the country, as the gates fling wide and the tardy bell tolls, let us teach our children to look for the one. As they fill the hallways and crowd the classrooms and line up in the lunchrooms, let us teach them to look for the one … the one whose head is downcast, the one who stands apart, the one who sits alone.

Let us teach our children to offer a smile or a seat, to extend help or a hand, to speak kindness and mercy. Let us teach them to go to the fringes, to welcome the immigrant, to befriend the friendless, to embrace the outcast.

Because the hurting, and the cast aside, the misfit, and the marginalized … these aching souls walk within the halls of our schools, desperate simply to know that someone cares.

Let our kids be someone who cares.

So before we make their lunches or lay out their clothes or snap that back-to-school picture, before we tuck them in or read that story or say that prayer, let’s have a conversation in which we tell them simply to look for the one.

Because if we teach them to look for the one, then perhaps one day there may not be any more ones to be found.

– Shalene Roberts

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