Four Letter Words

Have you ever thought about all the four letter words there are in the English language? I have a lot lately.

 

The first one that I want to talk about is BALL. Yes ball. You see all year my class has gone through about 6 to 8 kick balls. They go onto the roof, they fly over the fence and get popped, they go into the lake never to be found again, and many other traumatic endings. Last week was the worst. You see we have had the same two balls since Christmas when one of my students gave them to the class as a gift. Well on this fateful week all that changed. Every thing was against those poor balls. There was nothing I could do to change what was going to happen. The wind was very strong those days so the teachers kept trying to change the direction the kids were kicking so that the balls wouldn’t fly over fences and hit other kids on the head. So they went over fences and into other peoples backyards that house very large dogs that are known for biting people instead. We were able to get on of them back because it landed right on the other side of the fence were I could reach it. So I gave it back to the kids telling them to be careful because I wasn’t going go into the backyard to get it. They all answered that they would be careful. Then on of the kids turned and gave the ball the biggest kick he could and we all watched as the ball sailed over the fence (that he was aiming to miss) and got caught on the top of the fence and POPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the kids that were playing with the ball just about cried while I tried not to laugh. You couldn’t have planed it better then that. To pop right after getting it back like that was just so funny to me. Ok, so the next day I was out at recess again and the wind was strong again. This time the kids were playing kick ball (this game only need one ball which is all they have at this point). One of the older kids took his turn and kicked the ball. The only problem is that the ball just kept going and ended up in this pond quit a ways away from where they were playing. I did laugh at that point because I had watched the wind take two balls away from the kids in a way that was so funny. Besides the look on the kids face that had kicked that ball was priceless to me. I mean to see your ball just keep going and going like that would shock any one I think. So we now have no balls in our class room. O well maybe one of these days I will get new ones for my kids.

 

Another four letter word that I have been thinking about is WAIT. I am having trouble liking this one I must say. You see some times God does things that we don’t understand. He just gives me one job and that is to trust even when I don’t like what I hear from Him. You might be thinking that this is some kind of mindless religion that I follow. No, it isn’t and that is what scars me the most. I know that He only has my best in mind when He asks me to do any thing. I can follow or I can choose my own way and not have the best for my life. I want God’s best even if I have to hear that four letter word again. I will admit that to hear the same four letter word that you have been hearing for the last ten years about some of your biggest dreams is hard. I wanted to here “You get to see your dream fulfilled” this time. Yet I have to trust God that He knows what and when things are best for me. I could always get my way and get ahead of God. Yet in the end I think I will be glad I waited for God’s perfect timing in all my desires. You see God says that if I delight in Him that He will give me the desires of my heart. So even though I don’t like to hear that four letter word I think I will follow it so I get what God want me to have, even if what I want isn’t what God wants me to have. When I wait on Him and get from Him what He want me to have it is always best.