A Lesson From the Great Teacher

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I am walking in circles around the dining room but I am oblivious to the fact that I am doing it much less why. So I stop and begin to walk down the hall. It is like slow motion. I can hear Darin calling Gabriela and I can here Gabriela crying. I’m walking down the hall and I am thinking, “what has happened now, why is she crying?”

Through all the noise, what with all the crying Gabriela is doing and Darin yelling for her to come here, I can hear her sobbing “My cain’t. My cain’t”. I hear the panic in her little voice. Where is she? I follow the cry to her room and I turn and look. She is not on the bed and she is not on the chest of drawers. It sounds more like she is in the closet.Oh my word! Girlfriend is sitting on top of the containers in her closet. There is just enough room for her to sit and not hit the clothes rack. I asked her what she was doing and she sobs “I was just trying to get my pants”. I laughed (sorry but it was funny).

I was so into panic mode that I did not see her vanity chair next to the containers. To relieve the stress I had to call Darin to come see this to which he replies “do I want to?” He comes in anyway and asks her the same crazy question that I did to which she replies, through her cry, “I was trying to get my pants!” He walks out as he orders me to banish all the chairs from her throne room. Yeah, like she would find no other way to feed her fashion obsession. A girl has got to do what a girl has got to do!

I asked her to turn over on her belly and get down the way she got up. She did not comply, instead she is shaking her head and looking at me like there is no way. I asked her again and reassured her that I was here and would not let her fall. She cries and she starts onto her belly. Her toes are two inches away from the chair. Stretch I say to her, you can do it, you are almost there! I pull her leg so she can feel her little toes touch the chair. She is free. I grab her and hold her and tell her see that was not that bad as I move the chair back to her vanity. Darin was watching TV and had no idea how long she had been there. My poor baby. Why she had to have the pants that were hanging in the closet and could not grab something out of the mound of clothes she already had on the floor from playing dress up I’ll never know. The one thing left hanging in the closet was much easier to find, I guess.

The princess was spared from falling off her tower. And I forgot to get the camera.

So, why was I walking circles, did I sense what was about to happen? Was I praying?

Actually, I was and I did not even realize that I had escaped reality for the moment. I honestly had just remembered that my article was due and I had nothing yet. Stop laughing. I was actually just telling God that I was once again at a dead line and had nothing. God acted that fast. He’s good isn’t He?

The reality is that this is how I feel going into home schooling. This is my life now. I have gotten so far and the time is closer. I sit down to think on it and I start to panic. There is no turning back, I am going to fall flat on my face.

God is there to lift me up and encourage me (you can do it, I am here for you). I know the plans I have for you. (Jeremiah 29:11) Trust in me, I will direct your path. (Proverbs 3:6) He is so real and He is so on time. This is for us all. No matter where you are on your journey or what you are thinking. God is here and He is an on time God. Sit down and relax, walk circles, get spiritual, whatever it takes to let God reveal Himself in your time of need.

Thanks for all of your comments, words of wisdom, advice and prayers (someone has been praying). I feel so welcomed into this home school journey.

Andrea is a laid back gal from the south who has been married to a loud little Italian man named Darin for 7 years. They have two kids: one thinks he is a professional wrestler and the other thinks she is a professional princess (yes she wants to be paid to be bossy and prissy.) She has recently given up the corporate world to step into a land of kisses and learning. You can visit her at her blog: The Honest Woman. Help!