Actually I’m a lot calmer today compared to yesterday, thanks to prayer (not only my heart cries, but friends lifting me up) . Today I haven’t heard anything from the student and I’m hoping that means he is back at school and staying!
It didn’t hurt either that I had three packages come in the mail so I got to end my day on a high note opening care packages which included pepperoni, Crystal Light drink mix, movies, beef jerky, Starbucks coffee and a few other items. Thank you friends and family for sending the items!
I know life gives us all ups and downs and will continue to be that way until our final breath this side of Heaven. My own personal issue is how to deal with those downs in a Christ-like manner and how to continue leaning on God during the ups.
“Two things I ask of you, LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God. Proverbs 30:7-9 (NIV)