Author Gets Emotional on Call with Teacher Who Encouraged and Inspired Her

Teaching is not an easy profession, but it’s an extremely important one. We always need good and dedicated teachers, and we can never have too many of them in the classroom. Educators impact the next generation; what those teachers say and do in the classroom matters greatly.

Teachers, with just a few words or a particular lesson, could change a student’s entire life. A teacher’s kind and encouraging words could be just the thing someone needs to get them to see and achieve their potential. That’s precisely what happened to author Abby Jimenez, a New York Times bestselling author.

In a clip posted on YouTube, Abby decided to reach out to her former high school teacher to thank him for his encouragement. He made her believe that she could go on and do great things with her writing and make it a career, which she has done.

“The only schooling that I ever had for writing was your class,” she says to her former teacher. “You made me love writing. You were so encouraging. It was the only class that I liked in my whole high school career. That was the only class that I enjoyed. And, you know, I just wanted to tell you that how much you meant because I don’t know if I would be a writer today if it wasn’t for you.”

Later in the clip, the teacher mentioned how much hearing from Abby meant to him.

“Hearing these kinds of things from your students is really better than winning some kind of award or getting a good review from your principal,” he said.

Psalm 32:8 “I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.”

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Originally published February 17, 2025.