What is anonymous love?

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening, you will find me walking through a welcoming door making my way into a rec room at a quiet little church with 14 other tutors. In this barren white room, there are tables and chairs and two closets of magic, and a room full of magicians. Tutoring magicians that is. 

Inside these closets are books, dice, chips, flashcards and every schooling support needed to help children learn. These tutors do their best to make each lesson fun, engaging, rewarding and magical. 

Because what is more magical than learning?  

You see we are helping students catch up from a lapse in schooling caused by the pandemic. There is a residential area nearby that did not have internet in their neighborhood until April 2021…. You read that correctly, April of 2021!! This means that these children did not have school for almost two years during distance learning but the system graduated them onto their next grade level.  As you might imagine, these ESL children feel incredibly lost within a system that is inundated with need caused by this unexpected world event.

Our family has now joined this team of volunteers to help bridge the gap as these children learn English, math and that they have other mentors in their lives that are there to support them.

We laugh, we learn and we have fun. 

Every week, I try to make magic happen and create fun within our lesson, knowing that she has been in a full day of school already. I sprinkle fun and joy within the lessons, flashcard races and dice and coin games to learn addition and subtraction. 

We always have fun which feels like its own miracle.

One interesting fact though, my student does not even know my name. She calls me Teacher. The same is true for my husband’s student. His name is Teacher too. 

I thought about telling her that my name is Erin but as soon as I thought it, I realized it didn’t matter. What I am doing there has nothing to do with Erin. 

It is an effort that is beyond me. 
It is anonymous love.

Every week, we give everything we have to help these students understand concepts and to learn how to communicate better. It flows from this place of anonymous love. 

She doesn’t need to know who I am. 

This week, I experienced my first huge miracle and milestone. Out of the blue, she said her first complete sentence in English, unprompted, and unrelated to what we were learning. She told me that she liked her snack. 

I could not have felt more proud and excited! 

We have such a long journey ahead of us but this Teacher is ready for every step. 

Have you ever given or received anonymous love? 

The painted rocks left on doorsteps during the pandemic were an incredible way for people to share this anonymous love. In sharing love this way, we no longer identify with the action only the feeling. This experience allows our energetic frequency to raise. We get so giddy over these acts of anonymous love because our energetic frequency raises so quickly. 

Can you leave flowers on a doorstep or help someone with their grocery basket at the store parking lot? There are many opportunities throughout our day to give back to the world through anonymous love. 

Be your own Teacher and offer compassion and kindness to the world and watch how your energetic frequency raises as you begin to draw in even more blessings. 

We attract how we act and acts of anonymous love send our energetic frequency flying high. 

Worried? Stressed? Staying awake at night ruminating on problems? Just as we give our physical bodies a break, we give our mental minds a break and raise our energy too. Join me for this week’s meditation, Raise your energy, and watch how quickly your energy frequency elevates.

Want to give specific love this Valentine's Day?  Join me for tomorrow's Love.Heal.Thrive. podcast where I share what each Enneagram number needs in love and how to give them what they need for Valentine's Day and every day. 

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Much love,
Erin