September 2012:
It was that moment when everything seemed to pause for a few
seconds. I momentarily wondered if my trainer, Dr. Larry Quade, just said what I though he said. All I remember was his
brief pause, body turning around and eyes casually looking at everyone then
stopping at me. He voluntarily interrupted his lecture to say this: “the reason we do this is so that we can
communicate with children where they are at developmentally.”
I was in shock. For this was not the first time the Lord was
making it clear I was EXACTLY where I was supposed to be. The string of events
leading up to this point made things ever so clear that I was supposed to be in
Dallas learning at this Institute. – The
statement he made, the very words, were the words I had been saying to friends
and family who asked me the reason I wanted to start a children’s camp. To be honest, every time I voiced
my heart aloud, I felt silly for how I verbalized things. I was not exactly
sure it made sense to others but it was the best I could come up with. The very simple fact of the matter is that Dr. Larry Quade paused his lecture
to insert that very statement which I know that I know was meant for me to
hear. It left me with chill bumps and a racing heart; God was and is so AMAZING. He
was taking me though His training and
equipping for the purposes that He purposed for me to do and I have a hankering those purposes are more than just starting a children's camp.
The reason why that was so monumental as I reflect on
my time in Dallas is because things got hard. REALLY HARD. It was ultimately
those abundantly clear confirmations from the Lord that kept me from quitting
this particular institute. [Along with
my commitment to Parkway Montessori.]
