The scientists describe thoughts of God as providing the mind with "important psychological nutrients" that "refuel" our innerresources, much like Gatorade replenishes the body after a long run.
Unfortunately, you also become pretty detached from your own inner spiritual and emotional resources as well as from the resources of a supportive community of colleagues.
And I also agree, as an inner city educator who had to invest his own resources in providing basic services and supplies to a debate team I coached, that teachers are not properly rewarded for such outsized initiative (Mr. Tarkenton, if you want to throw financial support behind my important work teaching debate to at-risk black and Hispanic teens, I am ready to make that reception).