When I Am Weak, He is Strong
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
I have been so incredibly busy lately. I will be so glad when the boys get their Driver's License and they get vehicles so they can drive.
My week consists of getting them to work six days a week, Mon - Sat, from 7 am to 3:30, sometimes they work until 5pm and sometimes until 7pm. They never know when they will have to stay over, it depends on what projects have to go out. So lately my quiet times have been at various times and my prayers are without ceasing.
Then I have to get them to AA meetings three times a week, we meet their Parole Officer once a week and they do Community Service hours each week. After we complete this, we make sure they get to go to church at the Youth Group on Sunday Mornings while we are at the Juvenile Correctional Facility and then to Bible Study Huddle Ups on Wednesday nights and College Life Services on Tuesday nights. Tonight they informed me they signed up for Flag Football and they hoped it was okay. I told them sure, but Community service would be on Friday night then.
On the side I am trying to get their Birth Certificates and Social Security Cards so we can get their licenses after their warrants are taken care of thru time served, plus teach them both how to drive and let them practice parallel parking. And the washer broke down, so I have been taking the laundry to the laundromat.
One of the boys is doing extremely well, he is even becoming a youth leader at church, holding the other boy accountable to do the right thing, the other one, is struggling. One day he is up and the next he is down, there is no consistency. I pray and God answers, then another incident, I pray, God answers. We are taking baby steps right now in his life and the other one is taking giant steps. So we are all growing and learning. It isn't easy, but God probably thought that about me too. Today when we got to College Life he was upset with me, because I had corrected him about not being ready and standing around talking when he gets off work. So when we get to College Life he doesn't want to go, I made him go and when I picked him up, he was so excited, said he met alot of kids who were doing something with their life and he felt so good about himself. Thank you Jesus.
Still I am learning more and more how to lean on Him, trust Him and let Him work. I am powerless. I try to stay out of the way, because He is capable of working the whole thing out, no matter the situation. Thanks for prayers for these two young men that God created and loves with all of His heart. Both are very sweet and lovable, one just gets so down on himself and the only life he has ever known was not a good life, and their are lots of old habits and thinking errors to get out in the open and overcome.
My week consists of getting them to work six days a week, Mon - Sat, from 7 am to 3:30, sometimes they work until 5pm and sometimes until 7pm. They never know when they will have to stay over, it depends on what projects have to go out. So lately my quiet times have been at various times and my prayers are without ceasing.
Then I have to get them to AA meetings three times a week, we meet their Parole Officer once a week and they do Community Service hours each week. After we complete this, we make sure they get to go to church at the Youth Group on Sunday Mornings while we are at the Juvenile Correctional Facility and then to Bible Study Huddle Ups on Wednesday nights and College Life Services on Tuesday nights. Tonight they informed me they signed up for Flag Football and they hoped it was okay. I told them sure, but Community service would be on Friday night then.
On the side I am trying to get their Birth Certificates and Social Security Cards so we can get their licenses after their warrants are taken care of thru time served, plus teach them both how to drive and let them practice parallel parking. And the washer broke down, so I have been taking the laundry to the laundromat.
One of the boys is doing extremely well, he is even becoming a youth leader at church, holding the other boy accountable to do the right thing, the other one, is struggling. One day he is up and the next he is down, there is no consistency. I pray and God answers, then another incident, I pray, God answers. We are taking baby steps right now in his life and the other one is taking giant steps. So we are all growing and learning. It isn't easy, but God probably thought that about me too. Today when we got to College Life he was upset with me, because I had corrected him about not being ready and standing around talking when he gets off work. So when we get to College Life he doesn't want to go, I made him go and when I picked him up, he was so excited, said he met alot of kids who were doing something with their life and he felt so good about himself. Thank you Jesus.
Still I am learning more and more how to lean on Him, trust Him and let Him work. I am powerless. I try to stay out of the way, because He is capable of working the whole thing out, no matter the situation. Thanks for prayers for these two young men that God created and loves with all of His heart. Both are very sweet and lovable, one just gets so down on himself and the only life he has ever known was not a good life, and their are lots of old habits and thinking errors to get out in the open and overcome.
posted by Live, Love, Laugh | 11:08 PM
1 Comments:
It's good to see that the Lord is working miracles in those boys lives. I don't know how you have time to go to work and do all of the things that you do. I'd be a basket case. Good luck
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