Be Still...

Psalms 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.


Psalms 46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.


2 Chronicles 20:17
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle:set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem:fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them:for the Lord will be with you.

Well known verses, but they mean a lot to me right now. However simple, when God proves Himself true, the experience is worth remembering. In the busiest week of my teaching experience here, I found myself frustrated....

Frustrated...Today, the school director will visit our second grade classroom and observe my science class. Of all times, I want a well-planned lesson. I knew since Sunday, but that didn't really help. No matter how many times I sat down to research or try to plan this lesson, it was a failure. Lest you think that I plan all my lessons this way, I had my classes all planned at the beginning of the week. But, since my fellow second grade teacher was away for business on Monday, class plans suffered a fruit basket upset. I taught a boubke science lesson, and somehow managed to cover most of the week's material. Now what? "Lord, I was able to plan and get all the materials for art class in ten minutes... Why can't that happen for science?" Hours and days go by but with no success.

Frustrated....The big bulletin board/banner into which  my students and I have put forth so much enthusiastic effort has been destroyed by the tropical downpours. It is now a mess of wilted, soggy, and smeared butcher paper. Sigh... It's too late to start a new one, but I'm afraid it will destroy my students' motivation when they find out what happened to their hard work.

But, I go to sleep anyway, knowing that worry will not solve either problem.  When I woke up at 3:30 this morning, God have me the answer to both problems!  I was so excited, I couldn't sleep anymore! The solutions are so simple that I wonder that I did not think of them before... Any effort before today would have been a waste, and God knew I did not have time to waste...He is faithful!