This is TRUE! But it is also hard! Right now I want God to orchestrate our lives to allow my girls and I to be home next year. I’ve reminded God of all the altruistic reasons why this is such a good idea. I can help my sister who currently homeschools her daughter, my daughters will receive a more tailored education, my oldest who struggles with attention, focus, sleep and listening would have a more flexible schedule that would make things easier for her, my daughters would not be constantly exposed to all manner of evil, another teacher in our district is contemplating homeschooling her two boys who are the same age as my girls and we could work together. That’s a pretty impressive list isn’t it! Unfortunately, this impressive list doesn’t seem to be activating the hand of God.

So, I have to remind myself of the hard truth that I heard on a recent Family Life broadcast that God sometimes brings us hard things to give us good things. This has to be true! Look at the martyrs mentioned in Hebrews, Joseph, Job, Paul and so many others. So, I am left with these truths. God will either WOW me with the way He sets up my plan, He will AMAZE me with His better plan or He will be with me through His hard plan. No matter what, He is good and that means that I am too. Unfortunately our emotions and “hearts are deceitful above all things”. That means that I am struggling today. My heart is aching because I feel, based on the last eight years of experience, that God will go with Plan C and that is hard. But His hardships always bring good. I am pressing on in faith and working to embrace with gratitude alone THIS DAY! This day where I get to homeschool my daughters and still be paid since schools are closed. I still have to teach my students, but I am able to be home with my girls and work on tailoring their education and flexing their schedules.

God is good all the time and all the time He is good!