This year would be, if I counted correctly, the fourth year that God has been dropping on us a big bag of surprise when school enrollment season comes around. We're always not sure when the package will arrive, but we know it will come at the perfect time. And when I say "drop", I mean exactly that -- something came down from above. We don't know where or how.
This year, the package arrived yesterday. (cue: finger snap) Yes, just like that :-)
It's a bit funny to think that we actually prayed to have an experience like this, when you absolutely don't know where the blessing is coming from but it just arrives. God, in His omniscience, decided that He'd answer our prayer, but not without a lesson first. Of all the things He used for us to experience and appreciate the significance of surprise blessings, He chose something that worried the hell out of us every year: school enrollment season. Now, we know that God chose it specifically, so that He could show us His grace and power through something that for us was a Goliath -- frightful, distressing, impossible, and gigantic.
Essentially, God gave us an annual exercise in faith.
Combined, our kids' tuition fees amount to an overwhelming 6-digit figure that my husband and I have no way of scraping together over the 11-month period in-between enrollment dates, because all we had were our incomes. Yet, we didn't want to move to another school but we've got a very good thing going there now. The experience we've been having there convinces us that we are investing in not just education but, also, a future.
As our children grew up, we realized that there are dreams and aspirations that have already been planted in their hearts by God right at the start. This made us realize also that, because these are God's plans, He will be the One to see them all the way through. So, as far as we're concerned, we are simply stewards of these precious lives that God has placed in our care but, it's really Him who calls the shots. All we needed to do is to trust and obey Him.
There are times when a tiny voice of doubt steals into my mind and asks me foolish questions. It's at these moments that it's important to remind myself:
I should be asking myself: "When has He ever failed? Has He ever broken a promise? What is impossible for God?" And the answer is what we've known all along: He is Almighty God and He is more than enough for me.
This year, the package arrived yesterday. (cue: finger snap) Yes, just like that :-)
It's a bit funny to think that we actually prayed to have an experience like this, when you absolutely don't know where the blessing is coming from but it just arrives. God, in His omniscience, decided that He'd answer our prayer, but not without a lesson first. Of all the things He used for us to experience and appreciate the significance of surprise blessings, He chose something that worried the hell out of us every year: school enrollment season. Now, we know that God chose it specifically, so that He could show us His grace and power through something that for us was a Goliath -- frightful, distressing, impossible, and gigantic.
Essentially, God gave us an annual exercise in faith.
Combined, our kids' tuition fees amount to an overwhelming 6-digit figure that my husband and I have no way of scraping together over the 11-month period in-between enrollment dates, because all we had were our incomes. Yet, we didn't want to move to another school but we've got a very good thing going there now. The experience we've been having there convinces us that we are investing in not just education but, also, a future.
There are times when a tiny voice of doubt steals into my mind and asks me foolish questions. It's at these moments that it's important to remind myself:
I should be asking myself: "When has He ever failed? Has He ever broken a promise? What is impossible for God?" And the answer is what we've known all along: He is Almighty God and He is more than enough for me.
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