Day 8: Blessing in Disguise

Yesterday I confessed to feeling completely overwhelmed.  Today I awakened to a 12 item to-do list, a full day of homeschooling (4 students, 7 subjects, do the math!), a grandmother to tend to, a taillight in need of repair, a possible trip to "town" (50 miles away), a volleyball game in the afternoon (9 miles away), a soccer game in the evening (25 miles away), and two very sick kids.  I also awakened to a fresh reminder that God loves me beyond measure and has planned every detail of my life to perfection!  Let me explain...

Most days I feel like hamster on a wheel -- racing frantically at breakneck speed, but never getting anywhere.  And some days I toy with the idea of leaping off the wheel, with little regard for life and limb.  That's where I was yesterday.  But today I woke to two sick kids, and the wheel slowed to a stop.

I hate that my kids are sick, but I love that God know exactly how to stop my wheel.  There have been other times in my life when God has used sickness, cancellations, breakdowns, snowstorms, and the like to stop my wheel because I wouldn't.  And I love that He loved me enough to give me sick kids today in order to make me stay home -- in my pajamas, no less!  (The kids and I were just showing our school spirit; after all, it is spirit week at the middle school, and today was pajama day!)

And how was my day?  Well, I completed 10 of the 12 items on my to-do list, taught a full day of school, trusted God to take care of my grandma, cancelled my trip to "town", sent my daughter to her volleyball game (They won!), skipped my son's soccer game (because he was sick), and made chicken noodle soup for dinner!  Not only that, but my uncle fixed my taillight (Thanks, Duane!), I had a wonderful visit with my brother, I played games with my kids for the first time in a long time, and the sick are being made well!

Yep, God is good...even to stubborn little hamsters like me!