He Cares For Us

As I look forward to this brand new year, I am: hopeful, scared, sad, and I don’t know what else. This is my last year homeschooling. Homeschooling has been my identity for the past fifteen years. Everything is going to change next year. I’m not sure I’m ready for it.

I’ve been praying a lot lately. That’s my life line. Praying for my kids’ futures. Praying for me, and what I’ll do next year. As I pray, I look and see God’s answers to my prayers. I’ve seen God’s hand on my life and my family’s lives. I see Him working in all of us: molding and shaping us. I see this Christian life like a spider web. We are all interconnected. As each person, affects other people.

My son was frustrated, a month ago. Before Thanksgiving, I had mailed his transcripts to the school he wants to go to next year. I had driven all the way to the post office, and dropped them off, into the mailbox. Well two weeks passed, and they didn’t get them. My son was frustrated with me, asking if I in fact, had mailed them. I said I had. He said the school never got them. I emailed our current home school administer to request another transcript. She said she would prepare another copy and I could come pick it up. I did. When I got to her office, I also gave her an updated course of study. She looked that over, to make sure all the classes we were currently taking, were on the newly printed transcript. She realized she forgot one class. She immediately, went to her computer to reprint the transcript with the class she forgot. I told her I had mailed the other transcripts, but the school hadn’t received them. She said, they would have gotten the wrong transcript. Now I knew, why the transcript never got to the school. They were the wrong ones.

I told my son when I got home, that the other transcripts were wrong and now I had the correct one. I told him that’s the reason the transcript never got to the school.

I see God’s hand in all this. I could have had the right transcript the first time, but what lesson would my son see? None. But now, he could see clearly, God working in our lives, protecting us. If our lives went smooth as butter, what need would we have of God? We wouldn’t. The little bumps and hurdles we have to clear, allows God to teach us as we go. It keeps us on our knees, looking to the God who says to cast our cares upon Him, for He cares for us. The wrong transcript was another lesson for my son that God is alive and well on planet earth and He IS involved in our lives, even in the little things. I see God teaching my son lessons, as he prepares to leave our home and go off to college next year. My son needs to take God with him. He needs to rely on God. I see God showing my son why that is important.

God reveals who He is, through the bumps and hurdles in our lives. He has told us in His word, but He shows us again, in our everyday lives. Again, if life were as smooth as butter, what need would we have of God? When we hit a hurdle, the believer, usually looks to God for answers. He’s our life line. I don’t know how the unbeliever ever lives this life. I need God in mine. I need Him every hour. For this new year, I’m grateful God has saved me, and He commands me to cast my cares upon Him. I am grateful He cares for me, even in the little things.