This is a big year for our family. One son starts High School and the other Pre-K! To say that the range of our parenting issues is vast is an understatement!
I am watching my oldest turn into a man. He is one of the best things I ever did in my life. I do worry about him and his fears of high school, but it takes me back to my first day of high school. I was scared to death! But after first period was over, all was well. I just pray that he has a great year. That he makes friends, enjoys his classes and finds his place.
Isn’t that what it’s all about? Finding your place.
Then there’s my little one. He is so excited about school (especially about riding the bus)! I want him to have fun and fit in with his little friends. To play like he’s never played before and hopefully learn a few things while he’s at it. And I especially pray that his hemophilia does not keep him from too many things.
Sometimes I feel like I’m still trying to “find my place.” To fit in as the wife of a pastor in a small town, to fit in at Iliff as a new student (whose husband was very well known), to fit into the corporate world in a position I was not “trained” in school to do. Am I really qualified to be where I am?
But the truth is that God has put us in many different places in our lives. To play different parts, even when we didn’t feel qualified. And when we are in those uncomfortable places, is when we especially need to have the heart of an “oozer.” To exude the light of Christ in every thing we do and every word we speak. That’s not easy.
Are you in a comfortable place right now?
Remember, “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.”
Today I Am Thankful For:
1. hangers
2. too many sandals
3. the smell of new school supplies
4. incense
5. power shopping
