Do you think you can get the answers you need by asking God or whatever higher power you choose to believe in? Read on for an interesting story about the missing homework papers of my 11-year-old daughter.
When my daughter took a break from her homework to eat dinner, the trouble started. She asked if she could take it to her room and work on it while watching TV.
(Not a good plan, by the way.) Even the best moms have times when they feel weak.
Anyhow, when dinner was over, the homework was nowhere to be found.
I told her the usual things moms say when something is lost. "Go back over what you did." "Think about where you wrote down an answer the last time."
During her first week of middle school, she looked for 15 minutes and cried for 10 minutes out of fear of getting in trouble (for not turning in homework.) After all the tears and whining, we both looked for another 10 minutes, but we still didn't find the homework.
Do you understand?
I bet you've been there and done that as a mom, if not with homework, then with your child's shoes, your car keys, etc.
I had been reading and learning about how to create the life you want by having a positive attitude and listening to your intuition. I was really excited and pumped up about what I was learning.
I told myself, "Okay, mom. Now you can put all this philosophy to the test."
I said,
"Let's get on our knees and ask God to help us find your homework right now." She started to giggle as if to say, "Yeah, right, Mom," but she knew she shouldn't.
We got on our knees, and I led her in a short prayer that got right to the point. Even though it was short, it was full of thanks, and we asked for help right away to find her homework.
I can tell that some of you are going to laugh at me as this story goes on.
As soon as we were done, I stood up. I told her to calm down and take a deep breath. I also did it. I went to the kitchen after that. I thought to myself, "Maybe she was still hungry and brought the homework out here while she was looking for something else to eat."
I got up and started to walk to the fridge.:o) Well, who knows, maybe it was in there. But before I got there, I looked over at the counter and saw that her homework packet was sitting on top of the toaster.
I picked it up and brought it back to the living room. Now, remember that I told her to breathe deeply and calm down. I had already found her homework before she was done relaxing.
My daughter found it hard to believe that I hadn't known it was there the whole time.
She did know that, though, because she had heard me crying and getting angry because she had lost it just minutes before.
Was it just coincidence? Did I just get lucky?
I think that we make our own luck. I've been working hard lately to get rid of negative thoughts and replace them with strong, positive ones.
I think God did exactly what I asked of him. It was my intuition that told me she might be hungry, so I went to the kitchen. When she put her homework down, I thought she might be looking for food, so I went straight to the toaster.
I think that God put those thoughts in my head because we asked him for help. When He answers us so quickly, it's almost impossible not to believe and have faith.
If only it were that simple to have the same kind of faith if we asked to win the lottery, which I don't think is a very good prayer. To think that he could get rid of every thought, or to doubt that he could, might just happen.
How many of you can say for sure that when you buy a lottery ticket, it's a winner and you have no doubt at all that you'll get the winning numbers? To do this, you'd have to have faith that's out of this world.
You can't really do that because it's almost impossible for a person to get rid of all doubt in that situation, even if they know they have a good chance of winning. Some of those thoughts are so far down in your mind that you don't even know they're there.
On the other hand, I didn't have much trouble believing that God could help me find my daughter's homework because I knew it hadn't grown legs and walked out the door.
