God's Blessings

I remember a few years ago when the kids were only 3+ and Mee Toh was just about to start in Punggol. I went onto the websites, asked around from my teacher friends, prayed, seeked advice from sisters and brothers and parents, just to decide which is a better school to send them to. Yes, I know Mee Toh is a Buddhist school and conflicts with our beliefs, but they offer Higher Chinese from P1, which I emphasise a lot for my kids. One day, while I was reading a Psalm, somehow an image of the word 'Edgefield' just floated above the pages and I decided that it must be God's instructions for me. Pagens laugh at me, calling me stupid to forego such a good school for a neighbourhood school, my own parents were absolutely sarcastic at my decision. Fortunately I had Adrian by my side, fighting off all the nagging comments from the pagens, for much as I knew it was God's will, I could not help but wonder if I was just going crazy.

Then came the isue of whether to separate the twins into different classes or not. If I keep them in the same class, they can take care of each other. Yet if I don't split them, Natalie will forever be comparing her academic results with Nathanial and unfortunately for her, Nathanial is just that bit better than her in most areas. But if I split them, I would be having endless nightmares of comparing the teachers, something I'd hate people to do to my kids yet I can't help doing it myself.

Thanks to God's guidance, I put them in Edgefield and requested that they be separated into different classes. In the first couple of days you don't really see much difference except my frustrations over how the teachers do work differently and their different efficiency levels. But today there's finally a breakthrough. Natalie has been made a leader with her own assistant to hand out leaflets to the class, while Nathanial has been made the English leader. If they had been in the same class, Nathanial wouldn't have been noticed for who he really is. He would always be hiding behind the shadows of his twin sister.

Lord, I thank You for Your constant guidance in what to do. All I need to do is to truly surrender to You, something which I still struggle with time and again. Lord, with all these experiences, help to remind me to remember all the blessings You've given me when I fully surrender to Your will. A true disciple should not be burdened with any earthly troubles at all.

Amen!