Found Waiting

Good evening to you. I have wondered how your day has been~ Wondered if it turned out the way you planned. Mine didn’t but they rarely do. You see today started out .... humm -- wait just a second....

Here - come over here and sit down. Make yourself comfortable let me tell you about the day. …. When I woke up this morning I was not feeling good at all! One of those silly sinus things that makes you feel like your head is gonna explode. Now wait -- I promise that this will end in a pleasant manner~ Anyway it kind of put a damper on the morning because I missed my Bible Study. Really would have preferred to have stayed home and crawled back into bed. But I guess work felt they couldn’t get along with out me and they were short handed so I had to go in for the last part of the afternoon to help take care of the kids.

Now - I must admit that I was not happy about this. Was kind of grumbling a little. Couldn’t figure out why I HAD to be there! I mean come on surely they could have survived one after noon! Well ... let’s just say that God had other ideas - which He usually does.

One of our 4-year-old boys had just stood up to go throw his snack trash away when he very unexpectedly had an “accident”. He was very upset with himself and tried to hide it but some things are just not hide able~

So, I walked over and offered to help which only managed to bring him to tears. I reassured him that it was okay and that it was a fixable thing. Now this is a kid that does not upset easily but for some reason this really upset him and it took some time to get him to calm down - he managed to get his clothes changed only after he smashed his thumb in the door. Talk about a horrible no good very bad day! And it was all within about a 15-minute time frame. Shheeeesh

Anyway - he was calm and seemed to be recovered and it was time to go outside. I noticed once we got outside that he was trying to ride a bike while sobbing his little heart out! I walked over and told him I would be sitting in the chair and if he wanted to come and sit with me he was welcome to do so. He beat me to the chair~ I had barely turned around and he was standing waiting for me to sit down so he had a lap to crawl into. So, for the next 30 minutes he sat there and cried off and on. Not talking too much but enough for me to figure out what was going on with his heart.

I realized after he left that God had put me there for a reason. Another thing - I should not have been out there with him. We had someone else out sick today so I needed to be outside with the kids.

Now - do you think God had a purpose? I do and He could have used anyone else but He wanted me to be there for that little boy today. How wonderful that He would allow me to do that. One more thing... I know I have referred to sitting with Him over there in that overstuffed chair but I wonder if it would ever be said of me that I beat Him to the chair - that I was found waiting for Him to sit down - just a thought…

Originally Written 1/22/02