Dear girls,

Today as I was walking, I mistook a tree trunk floating in the lake for an alligator. It reminded me that things are not always as they seem. Sometimes what you perceive as a threat from a distance may not be a threat to you at all. As you walk closer you may see that the things you view as threats are only things who have been uprooted by storms, left bent and broken, letting the waves soften them over time.

The moral of the story is this: Gain understanding before you profess what seems to be true about someone else. This is especially true of the ones placed in authority over you. The way our leaders handle Covid-19 may threaten your Spring Break dreams, but instead of seeing the pause as a threat, rest in the sovereignty of God knowing that he placed leaders over you for a reason.

From a distance, it may seem that the things your leaders say and do are foolish but you can’t see what’s happening behind the scenes. You are not privy to the conversations held in secret rooms. You don’t know what may bloom from seeds planted as you pause to consider your neighbor’s needs over your own.

You are free to express your opinion, but in the end, if the leader goes another way than what you thought you may have heard God say, listen and obey your leader’s directives with a grateful heart unless of course, their directives are in conflict with the truth of God’s word.

There may be other ways that the things you heard God say come true. Until then, let your leader play the role he was called to and respect and honor him or her the way God calls you to. Let both the leader and the body spend their time encouraging one another in the storm, praising Christ, folding swiftly into one nation under God.

Love,

Mom

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