I was planning to surf and ‘discover’ some special needs blogs this week.  This was my last week with extra free time before the holiday hits our family.  (Hubby is in retail!)  But even the best laid plans can fall apart!  Ever since the maintenance last Sunday, I have been having troubles with my blog and getting to others’ blogs!  Then the winter flu and dreaded pink eye epidemic hit our home! Schooling went on the back burner along with the free time for blog surfing!  There went my article plans! 

     The best laid lesson plans or activities can just fly out the window due to unforeseen or unplanned events!  We go through cycles at our house.  December is a bad month.  Our daughter was in the hospital for her first 5 Christmases, due to infections or other illnesses.  Even now, it seems like December never goes by without at least one trip to the ER or the doctor’s office for an unscheduled visit.    (We are up to one Emergency Room visit and four doctor office visits this December, so far.)

And to top it off it seems that I can’t even get an article written this week!  …And I was going to get it done extra early, too!   Supermom fails again! 

Yes, it has been a bad week, but I was inspired by the following passage from the book Sometimes Miracles Hide by Bruce Carroll, that was given to me by a good friend about 6 years ago.

     “Our earthly eyesight is just too imperfect to see down the road far enough for this life to make sense.  That’s when trust takes over.  God does not expect us to understand all of life’s circumstances. In fact, He tells us not to rely on our own understanding, but to trust in Him.
     So when you’re tempted to ask why?  or when your heart wants desperately to make sense of it all, remember Proverbs 3:5.  You don’t need to understand.  What you need to do is to trust in the Lord.
When trust turns into praise and when we open our mouths to thank Him for His goodness, something supernatural takes place inside our worried souls-we find peace and strength.   We forget about ourselves and instead focus on the One who holds the whole world in His hands.
When we stop striving to understand and give in to trust, we will see that His mighty hand was at work all along in the thing we thought would crush us.  Not only will we perceive a new reality, but we will rejoice in it.”

I have to be honest here, I am a complainer, not a rejoicer.  Sometimes it is just plain easier to complain about things than to trust in God and in what He knows is best.  I know that I need to give in to trust-it is the doing it that is hard. 

Remember to laugh…and Trust Him!

Janice

Janice  is a homeschooling mom of two, who tries to keep her good sense of humor even on days when it is really had to do so.  She feeds the son's dog, changes the daughter's cat's litter box and teaches a mean Algebra lesson! She still hasn't acquired the gift of bilocation-but she is working on it.