New Beginnings
Monday, June 2, 2008
I could see the writing on the walls for several years now. We would have to make a major change in order for our oldest daughter to attend school. The elementary school our neighborhood feeds is one of the lowest performing in the state. Never mind the inherent dangers of just walking the two blocks to get there. Private school was out of the question by simple economics and home schooling seemed unlikely. I just don’t have the patience for it. The bottom line: something had to change and something big.
Last year my wife and I began learning about the Montessori method of teaching and the more we learned the more we liked it. Montessori schools however were, as previously stated, unattainable. But as I’ve come to discover about our God unattainable only means unattainable by me. So just a few months ago, with my daughter’s fifth birthday fast approaching, my wife and I simply prayed for the money to send her to private school.
Tomorrow is the first day of class. Not only will our daughter be going to a Christian Montessori school but her little brother will join her, him being obviously ready. When we all visited the school last week we couldn’t get either one of them to leave. They are both very excited about the new “big school” they get to attend.
Tomorrow is also my wife’s first day at her new job. She didn’t mount a job search. She didn’t talk to a headhunter. She merely updated her resume when the opportunity presented itself. They made her an offer on our daughter’s fifth birthday. And her first day at work will be the first day of class.
I had assumed for some time now that the Lord would work something out for our daughter’s education. I didn’t know what it would be or how it would work or what exactly would change. But I knew something would come about for He had assured me that He was more concerned for her wellbeing than even I was. He’s worked out every detail, including the short trip to school that my wife will make on her way to her new office. And He timed it just so that we all could see His perfect provision in the midst of it all.
I thank Him for His provision. I thank Him for a decent school for our children. I thank Him for a new job that makes private school for two even possible for us, whereas just yesterday it wasn’t. I’m not surprised at all. I’ve come to expect these kinds of blessings from our Lord. Gratefully that doesn’t diminish it at all.
“‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you’” (Jeremiah 29:11, 12).
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