PROVERBS 3:5
Then I was about seven and a half, my parents separated. I remember asking lots of questions like, “Where’s Daddy?” and “When’s Daddy coming home?” The gentler term “separation” became “divorce” a few days before my eighth birthday. I still was too young to really understand what was going on, but it didn’t take long for me to see that Mom and Dad didn’t love each other like they used to. It made me angry. I was asking God so many questions, trying to figure out why this had happened and what was going on. One day I realized that if God made me and knows every thought I have, then He can control all the situations in my life. I needed to let God take over. When I was finally able to let God have it, the divorce my parents went through got a little easier. It still hurt really badly and I would not wish it on anyone, but I know that am still loved by both my parents and by God. In God’s love I have been learning to be strong even though life for me and my family is really tough right now.
Lindsay Oliver, 15, Cedar Hall School, Nashville, TN
Some things are just out of my control, Father.
Give me strength to endure them.