When we signed the lease/purchase agreement the first of March, it was stipulated that we had to purchase the property before the end of the year’s lease. Here it was already the end of June and we had our first graduating class of Tomorrow’s Promise. Time was flying by fast!

In the week between graduation and summer camp there was a lot of work to do and we still had children to take care of. When I got the call to pick up our new John Deere tractor, six school buses and a new fifteen passenger van, the realization of how big we now were hit me like a ton of bricks!

What in the world am I doing? I just wanted to play with kids… Oh Dear God! How am I going to pay for ALL of this?

“Little by little…step by step…just keep going…you will be fine,” He said.

Who am I to argue with God?

I reminded myself that He hadn’t disappointed me in the past and I was sure He wouldn’t now.

It was me that I was worried about, not God. Those “what if’s” can cloud your mind and creep into your heart making you doubt yourself continually. But I knew in my heart God Himself had designed this miraculous path I was on. I would not have chosen it for myself. I was unqualified to do all the things He asked of me…Kind of like Moses when he told God to use his brother cause he was a lawyer and could do a better job. I would have told Him the same thing!

“Not me God, I am not qualified.” But here I was the owner of two day care centers, a private school, and a summer camp. It is not the qualifications that are important but the willingness to listen and obey with a child like quality, to imagine it’s possible.

I found a saying attributed to Albert Einstein recently. It said “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” I guess if a qualified person did all the things I have done, with the same success, it would be attributed to the fact that they were qualified in specific areas. With me, anyone would know for sure, that everything was accomplished by God. I was just a willing vessel!

“With God All Things Are Possible!”

Even me being a Schoolmarm with a fleet of buses, a new van, and a John Deere tractor.

© Carole Devecka, God Given Daisies CaroleDevecka@comcast.net