Recently I have had this urgency to pray for the relationship between myself and the little girl I nanny for, well call her K. It is beginning to set in that my time with her is very quickly coming to an end. I feel like I have so much left I need/want to teach her. There are so many things in her life I that I want to get to experience with her. I have spent the last 3 years pouring into her, trying my best to make a good difference in her life. I am thankful that I am going to get to see her start her first day of Kindergarten, but I am going to miss her last day. I also may miss her first loose tooth. Or, more importantly, I may miss the day she accepts Jesus as her Lord.
My prayers recently would be that the Lord provides me with all the opportunities to teach her everything I am meant to teach her in these precious few moments I have left. Today I got a chance. Today was the first day of Ballerina camp, the camp K has been looking forward to all summer. I was putting her hair up in a ballerina bun when I noticed something did not look right at the front of her hair. Upon further inspection the conversation went as followed:
Me: “K, I already know what you did, but I am going to ask you. I want you to tell me the truth. Did you cut your own hair?”
K: No
Me: (trying very hard not to laugh because it is very obvious that her has been cut, and not by a professional) “K, I’m going to ask you again because I already know what you did. Did you cut your hair?”
K: (Bursts out in tears) “ YESSSSSS”
Me: “Well, I’m sorry to tell you, it looks really bad, but there isn’t anything we can do to fix it. We just have to wait for it to grow out. And it is not going to grow out by your first day of school. So I am going to try very hard to make it look as good as I can.”
She goes on to tell me she cut it because her hair was in her eyes. A little while later it was just me and her in my car as I was taking her to camp. I asked her if she knew why it was important to tell the truth. I was able to talk to her about how the Bile says we are not to tell lies, and I shared the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments with her. Then we prayed for the day.
It was such a great car ride. I pray that these moments continue in these next 5 months. I pray that she remembers these moments.
