Busy, Busy, Busy

Wow, how time flies when you are not looking!  It seems like yesterday that I was writing a post and looking back, it has been 4 months.  As I look ahead at the future, I sometimes forget to look at the present.  The last few months have definitely been lived in the present.  One day at a time.  Let me tell you a few things I have been up to.  Summer ended after a week of vacation.  We stayed in a cabin with no electricity and no water.  We were very close to the bathhouse and we had a grill.  It was great.  No wifi, unless you walked up the hill and no TV.  We played games and talked as a family.  Then coming home, life hit.   We came back to the week of Vacation Bible School, 2 a day softball practices and getting ready for school to start (I teach Kindergarten).  It hasn't slowed down since.  Here in October, we are finishing up the Cross Country season, and in between the softball and basketball season.  In a small school, kids play ALL sports.  But this afternoon I took time and took a walk down to the lake.  About a mile round trip.  My son and I collected acorns of different sizes and feathers that I will use in my fall science center at school.  We talked about future plans.  Both his and mine.  Sometimes taking a bit to live in the present is so much better than living in the future.  During our walk, he gave me an idea for my post kid, post-teaching life.  An idea that is sticking in my brain and sounds intriguing.  In thinking and praying about my future, several questions have popped up that will need to be answered before I can move on.  However, his idea may just solve all the questions.  Now the next step.  PRAY.  I have prayed about things in the past and they have fallen away in my mind.  I see that as God's way of telling me that is not the path to take or even waste my time thinking about.  It reminds me of the passage in Acts 5 where Gamaliel tells the Sanhedrin about the 2 men that rose up in society.  They had several followers but when they were killed, the followers dispelled.  Gamaliel says, "For if this plan or this work is of human origin, it will fail:"(vs. 38) I know that this is not speaking of my plans, but about the work of the apostles.  However, it also reminds me that anything of humans will fail.  "So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God." (1 Cor. 10:31)  So I will pray.  If this is not of God's will, it too will fade.  However, if it is of God, He will provide the way.  I only have to believe.  Now I better get back to my youth class lesson for Sunday.  This too has been a blessing. 
God did provide!