Once again, God has humbled me and shown me that He has my life in the palm of His hand, even when I cannot see, or feel Him at work. He showed me this evening that He is working on my behalf, even though I have not been exercising my faith and trusting Him to do just that.
This has been a tough week for Drama Queen and I in our homeschooling. She has learning difficulties, so we experience our share of ups and downs, but this week it’s been more down than up. I posted last night that I thought it was due, in part, to spring fever. The weather is beginning to warm up and we’ve had a couple of “not a cloud in the sky” days here. That seemed a reasonable explanation for her lack of focus and concentration that went beyond the norm for her.
Today, however, I lost sight of that possibility and got angry with her for not paying attention when we were learning. Honestly, after four days of dealing with this I was ready to pull my hair out. Of course, I apologized to her for losing my cool, but I felt like a bad mom.
This evening I took her to dance class and was talking to another mom, J., that I have developed a casual friendship with, and found out that she has been experiencing some difficulty with one of her children (who attends public school) this week also. We were commiserating with one another when another mom, R.,who doesn’t normally stay during dance class, came in and sat down.
I have to tell you that at first I was a little bummed because it squelched the conversation, as neither J., nor I felt comfortable continuing the conversation we were having. And here is where God stepped in and opened my eyes to His mysterious and wonderful ways once again. We struck up a conversation with R., and guess what, she is a homeschooling mom, and one of her children has learning difficulties also!!
We chatted and discovered that neither one of us has had any luck getting connected with a homeschool group in our area. The ones in our county and nearby counties have disbanded for whatever reason, and are no longer active. I have just begun searching again for a group to get involved with, and right before I left for dance I received an email from a homeschool group 30 miles away. This would be the closest one to us, and great news, they are indeed a very active group and open to new members. I promised to bring R. the information next week at dance class.
I left dance with a lightened heart, knowing God had sent someone my way who knew exactly what I was experiencing and had been through it herself. I know I am not alone in this venture, God is with me always, but it’s nice to have other moms to talk to who understand where you’re coming from. He brought these two women across my path at just the right time for us to encourage each other. Don’t we serve an Awesome God?
Have a great night!
Love, Velvia
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