When I started homeschooling my kids, I began a practice of offering to Odin just before we started lessons for the day. Odin is my god of wisdom: a teacher, a purveyor of life lessons, an orator.
I honestly felt sometimes that he would give me those bursts of inspiration that would help me to easily explain a difficult concept. While I had done some tutoring in college, I didn't have experience teaching children, so I wasn't sure I would be good at it. But Odin blessed me, because it turned out to be the best thing I have done with my life.
I still offer to him in the mornings a few days a week, and I still tutor here and there. At this point I consider myself a teacher, and I think that is a gift given to me by the Allfather.
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