Several weeks ago, I shared that we'd made the very hard decision to pull my middle daughter from her small Christian school and enroll her in our local public middle school. There had been many indicators that this is what we were supposed to do, but I didn't WANT to do this.
I wanted to keep her in the place where I thought she'd be most safe.
I wanted to keep her in the place that made the most sense to me.
But God.
When doors started closing making changes necessary, I discerned God obviously had other plans- Plans for me to place my trust in Him in even bigger ways.
The first day I dropped her off at her new school of over 1400 kids, there were many tears and many urgent prayers. But to my great surprise, she not only survived that first day, she actually came home happy.
And she has been happy ever sense. Really happy. Like, "I love going to school" happy.
But nothing has reminded me of God's faithfulness through this journey of trusting Him, more than an incident that happened last week. The teacher assigned my daughter's class a list of vocabulary words to study for a test to be given the next week. They were to be tested on the spelling, definition, synonym and antonym of each word. Plus they had to be able to use each word in a sentence.
The words were very difficult and after a few days of studying and still not getting anywhere, my daughter felt overwhelmed. When she shared her frustrations with her teacher, a classmate overheard and offered to help my daughter. The teacher arranged for the two of them to come to her class during lunch to work together.
This other student gave up his entire lunch period and free time after lunch to help my daughter. What middle schooler does this? (And just as an FYI... he already has a "friend-girl" so it wasn't even that he was crushin' on her or anything like that.) He was just being nice. Amazing.
Well, the big test was this past Monday.
Yesterday, my daughter got into the car absolutely breathless. Apparently, the teacher made a big deal of an announcement she wanted to make. Mrs. L called my daughter to the front of the room and went on to tell her classmates about how proud she was of her. She had persevered through her frustrations, sought out help, gave up her lunch and free time and worked very hard.
Then Mrs. L presented my daughter with the only 100% that had been scored on this particular test. She'd gotten a perfect score.
This girl who was struggling to the point of failing at her other school. This precious girl who pulled the covers over her head and begged me to let her drop out of school. This girl who seemed defiant and resistant with all things academic just a few weeks ago. This girl just got a 100% on a very hard test.
And thanks to one of those public middle schoolers that I'd been fearful of just a few weeks ago, she did it without any help from me.
"Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."
Trust in God.
It's an amazing thing.
What are you having to trust God with today? I pray this story encourages and inspires you.
Now I'm off to go study that list of vocab words my daughter just learned. She used a word in a sentence yesterday that I had not a clue what it meant. Have mercy.
I wanted to keep her in the place where I thought she'd be most safe.
I wanted to keep her in the place that made the most sense to me.
But God.
When doors started closing making changes necessary, I discerned God obviously had other plans- Plans for me to place my trust in Him in even bigger ways.
The first day I dropped her off at her new school of over 1400 kids, there were many tears and many urgent prayers. But to my great surprise, she not only survived that first day, she actually came home happy.
And she has been happy ever sense. Really happy. Like, "I love going to school" happy.
But nothing has reminded me of God's faithfulness through this journey of trusting Him, more than an incident that happened last week. The teacher assigned my daughter's class a list of vocabulary words to study for a test to be given the next week. They were to be tested on the spelling, definition, synonym and antonym of each word. Plus they had to be able to use each word in a sentence.
The words were very difficult and after a few days of studying and still not getting anywhere, my daughter felt overwhelmed. When she shared her frustrations with her teacher, a classmate overheard and offered to help my daughter. The teacher arranged for the two of them to come to her class during lunch to work together.
This other student gave up his entire lunch period and free time after lunch to help my daughter. What middle schooler does this? (And just as an FYI... he already has a "friend-girl" so it wasn't even that he was crushin' on her or anything like that.) He was just being nice. Amazing.
Well, the big test was this past Monday.
Yesterday, my daughter got into the car absolutely breathless. Apparently, the teacher made a big deal of an announcement she wanted to make. Mrs. L called my daughter to the front of the room and went on to tell her classmates about how proud she was of her. She had persevered through her frustrations, sought out help, gave up her lunch and free time and worked very hard.
Then Mrs. L presented my daughter with the only 100% that had been scored on this particular test. She'd gotten a perfect score.
This girl who was struggling to the point of failing at her other school. This precious girl who pulled the covers over her head and begged me to let her drop out of school. This girl who seemed defiant and resistant with all things academic just a few weeks ago. This girl just got a 100% on a very hard test.
And thanks to one of those public middle schoolers that I'd been fearful of just a few weeks ago, she did it without any help from me.
"Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."
Trust in God.
It's an amazing thing.
What are you having to trust God with today? I pray this story encourages and inspires you.
Now I'm off to go study that list of vocab words my daughter just learned. She used a word in a sentence yesterday that I had not a clue what it meant. Have mercy.
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