Stereo types are a funny thing. For example, men are the fix it types. They want to hear your problem then fix it (typically) and women want to analyze it and work it out with you. This is one of those glorious personality oddities about me. I'm both! ha...When it comes to my problems I generally want to analyze it and figure it out, but when it comes to someone else, I want to be able to fix it for them. This comes out in me most when there is pain involved. I teach Sophomore girls Sunday school with the most wonderful lady Beth Barnes. We have several very personality filled beautiful girls. They span three different high schools and even one who home schools. I love them all very much. One of the high schools is A&M Consolidated High School in College Station. Late Monday night there was a car accident. From what they can find the truck went off the road and hit a utility pole out South of College Station (from the best of what I can gather) there was only one person in the car and she didn't make it. She was 22 years old and she was the assistant choir director at Consol. Its been a rough day and a half for that school. One of my Sophomore girls was under her. She really liked her and is having a hard time with this. She said yesterday was a nightmare that wouldn't end. This is where my fix-it heart comes in. I hate that they hurt. I can't stand my girls to hurt. It makes my heart hurt so bad!! I want to take it all away so they don't have to feel it or go through it. But, at the same time even if I could, I wouldn't. I know that this hurts, and it just pretty much sucks, but I also know that Father is working in their hearts and lives and they are going through this for a reason. He sees the bigger picture that we do not.
Two really cool things I've seen Father do to prepare for this, is Sunday during our Sunday school lesson we talked about how Father sees the bigger picture and how things happen and they may hurt but there is more to it, there is a reason, he is preparing us for something. Its so cool how he prepared hearts to handle this this week by that being part of our lesson (because I honestly don't remember how it fit into what we were talking about). The other cool thing is that Sunday night I had a dream about Ashley, the girl I referred to earlier, well I had a dream and Ashley was in it. It wasn't anything bad, in fact I think we were serving food out of a trunk or something very odd like that haha. But since then she has been on my mind pretty much constantly. I know why now. Father knows what he is doing. He sees the bigger picture.
The illustration I gave Sunday was you know how you've seen the painting of the two arms and the fingers are almost touching? You have, believe me. Well we see that but what a lot of people don't realize is that is part of a huge painting in the Sistine Chapel. Its like we see the arms almost touching but Father sees the whole painting. (Its another cool story about how that image popped into my head where Father caused someone's XBox 360 to go out and so they borrowed our dvd player and they had that hanging on the wall the night before our lesson Sunday) Oh how he provides! SO cool!!
But back to what I was originally talking about, I now that Father is going to do some awesome stuff in the hearts of these hurting high schoolers. I know he has a plan. So Father, take their hearts, Father hold Ashley and Brooke. Help them through this one day at a time.
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