Charlyn’s Web

The Town’s School District decided to start school after Labor Day this year. Usually, for a number of reasons, they start the next to the last week of August. It is an unheard of event around here. It doesn’t bother us as we homeschool but it did throw a kink in a friend’s schedule.

RB’s son was starting kindergarten this year. RB works in another school district near here. The schools always started at different times so she thought there would be no problem with being able to be there for her son’s first day. But no, it’s all messed up now and she will have to take the second day of school off (kindergartners start the second day of school). She was irritated by this- for the Town’s School District to change their ways this year of all years.

I have another friend whose son has cancer, which was discovered in July. They are having to make trips to the Big City every week. Her Husband works for the Town’s School District and has had the summer off. The son is scheduled to have surgury on the 21st. If the School District had done it’s usual thing, the Husband would have had to take the first two weeks of school off. So this unique happening is a blessing to this family.

When I told RB this she threw her hands up in the air and said “It’s all worth it then, it’s really a blessing!”

Sometimes something that is an inconvenience to us- something that we wish was another way- is a blessing to someone else.

It’s all a matter of seeing things from God’s perspective.