waffle week...

so i've decided that some weeks are just "tweener" weeks... they waffle back and forth between good and realllllllly not so good... but it amazes me how God uses everything to bring us closer to Him... the kids at school have been overall manageable and my "assignment" autistic boy;) has been having some major breakthroughs...focus has been better, listening better, spontaneous language... i don't think there's anything that sounds funnier to MY ears than to hear this special little boy mutter to himself... "oh fiddlesticks..." hmmmm, where'd he get that??
family stuff has been rather intense with nephews and nieces struggling to stay on the right path... prayer is good... but what i look at mostly is the fact that everyone is at least alive, struggles and all, and this gives opportunity for a new day, new page, new lease on life... it's all good...
so my quotable quote for the week...
is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? corrie ten boom
i'm hoping it's a steering wheel for anyone reading this:)...

change is not just something that jingles in your pocket...

i had no idea when i wrote that silly little phrase that i would be encountering a major change on the work front of my life... what's interesting is that i don't even know yet that there IS going to be a change... i've been working in the same school for the past year and a half with the same autistic child. i have seen aMAZIng changes in him, and have had the joy to be there for some big moments... he is 10 years old, so he is all about change:)... but in the autistic mind, there is such a wide variety of ways to go, little hidden doors that need to be unlocked... i've been able to help open a few of them and now i'm anticipating going to be with another child... a junior high boy that i know nothing about... so that will be a change... but when i listened to the radio this morning? there could not have BEEN more references to how God wants us to be faithful to HIM not to our own comfort... step out... so i'm trying really hard to simply be "available"... to have the right attitude... if you can't change your circumstances? than change your attitude... (yes mom, i did listen growing up....i just mentally tantrumed against this platitude)... so who knows what the next step is going to be... but i know one thing, i'll have either a new appreciation of what i AM doing, or an appreciation for the upcoming change and challenge that God is presenting...