Today Aidan and Isabel started school. Every year the beginning is a challenge to my faith that God is in control of everything, including my children.
Every year since Aidan began four years ago, I worry about what the year will hold. Did they get a good teacher, will they learn enough, did we make the right decision about the school to send them to are just a few worries that run through my mind.
I am constantly reminding myself that God is faithful despite all the circumstances in our lives. I do not have to be the perfect parent, they do not have to have the perfect teacher, etc. God is faithful despite our unfaithfulness.
Even as I pray for God to change my heart and trust in him my worry creeps in. My prayer for this school year is to rest in God and his faithfulness to me and to my children.