I wasn’t very obedient to the urgings to resign from the school district, take care of my then dying Mother, or the suggestion that I homeschool our youngest. In fact, I stalwartly refused to do any of them….I had my own agenda and my own simply good reasons (albeit nonsense level when you think about argueing against God)
School started, and in about 11 weeks: a) the district I taught in consolidated, which would have added 42 miles to my commute to my life because they closed our building b) My mother’s health began the final decline in her cancer fight c) my own body wore out as i was trying to commute 3 schools in opposite directions, take care of Mom, and handle 6 hours of graduate study two nights a week and do everything else a mom of four does with home, school and sports. I finally gave in, I resigned and came home…..sure to face bankruptcy in the decision and angry as heck that God had won His way……I went to bed that night telling God that He sure knew what I was in for with our finances in need of my job…..and God laughed as I said “What are you thinking….we cannot live on his paycheck alone at this time”
The next morning at 5:00 the phone rang. “Mr. B you’ve been chosen to interview for the ____ job today at 8 a.m.” WHAT? Dh had electronically submitted for a government position that we hadn’t heard from in 2 years. TWO YEARS. Yet the day I surrender my life to God’s plan He is chosen for the job which almost doubles his pay and improves every benefit we have?
Yes …..God laughed. He knew all along when I got good and ready to surrender, He had a plan.
Do you think I homeschooled that year? Oh heck no. I completely convinced myself the Christian school down the road could do it MUCH more efficiently than I could….and after all….I was going to be busy with Mom’s care, Mary Kay, everything from home and teaching at the local college more graduate hours at night to finish up what I had already committed to. (to be continued) You see I may have surrendered my small school teaching contract, but I wasn’t about to just flat give up my whole planned in advance agenda for my life with daughter 2.
