It's been a tough week, full of ups and downs...but a couple heart warming stories remind me to keep going. (both having to do with kids :) )
One little kindergarten girl came up to me one morning and handed me a rose. At first I thought it was for the teacher I help out but when I saw that the teacher already held a rose, i realized the little girl was giving it to me. Surprised, I stared at her and asked "for me?" she nods and smiles. "Did you pick it out yourself? " she nods again and says " my dad and I went to Zehrs to buy them yesterday. I was in awe. I'm not a teacher in the class....yet she bought me a rose.
A kindergarten boy comes up to me thursday afternoon and says with his cute english accented voice "I like it when yourrr here". ( i don't volunteer wednesday afternoons so i wasn't there the day before)
These are little stories.....but it really made my day. : )
At Williams the other day, a customer asked me how i was doing in school. I answered, "i'm done school". He's like "really? you don't look like it". I answer "I'm 24". He gives me this look of surprise and shock. Perhaps that's the first time I hear myself say that I'm 24...or maybe it was the repeating of the number in my mind..or how old/foreign that sounded....that the reality strikes me. I'm 24.
And today, reading devotions (after not doing them for awhile), I read exactly what i needed to hear! :) God is good :) The most important thing is not about doing all the activities that i do....but my personal relationship with God which i've been neglecting. "It is the innermost, personal area that reveals the power of a person's life". Oswald Chamber says "if you waste your time in overactivity instead of being immersed in the great fundamental truths of God's redemption, then you will snap when the stress and strain do come". That's what i'm doing and how i feel. But...there's a way out: if you put him first & spend time getting rooted and grounded and spend time even if it may seem impractical, you will remain true to him no matter what. Truth. I need more truth. "The truth will set you free" John 8:32
One little kindergarten girl came up to me one morning and handed me a rose. At first I thought it was for the teacher I help out but when I saw that the teacher already held a rose, i realized the little girl was giving it to me. Surprised, I stared at her and asked "for me?" she nods and smiles. "Did you pick it out yourself? " she nods again and says " my dad and I went to Zehrs to buy them yesterday. I was in awe. I'm not a teacher in the class....yet she bought me a rose.
A kindergarten boy comes up to me thursday afternoon and says with his cute english accented voice "I like it when yourrr here". ( i don't volunteer wednesday afternoons so i wasn't there the day before)
These are little stories.....but it really made my day. : )
At Williams the other day, a customer asked me how i was doing in school. I answered, "i'm done school". He's like "really? you don't look like it". I answer "I'm 24". He gives me this look of surprise and shock. Perhaps that's the first time I hear myself say that I'm 24...or maybe it was the repeating of the number in my mind..or how old/foreign that sounded....that the reality strikes me. I'm 24.
And today, reading devotions (after not doing them for awhile), I read exactly what i needed to hear! :) God is good :) The most important thing is not about doing all the activities that i do....but my personal relationship with God which i've been neglecting. "It is the innermost, personal area that reveals the power of a person's life". Oswald Chamber says "if you waste your time in overactivity instead of being immersed in the great fundamental truths of God's redemption, then you will snap when the stress and strain do come". That's what i'm doing and how i feel. But...there's a way out: if you put him first & spend time getting rooted and grounded and spend time even if it may seem impractical, you will remain true to him no matter what. Truth. I need more truth. "The truth will set you free" John 8:32
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