She was reading me a story about Jesus in Telagou, and of course I didn’t understand what she was saying. So I sat there smiling, and then she pulled out her other text book and started reading a story about a girl and her lost anklet, to me in English. She would sound out the words, and look to me whenever she stumbled upon a word that she wasn’t sure of. I would read along with her, amazed at how a little Indian girl could learn English that well was amazing. Then while sitting there hearing about Munni and her lost anklet I flashed back to when I was this little girl’s age and had to take special classes for my reading skills. I would sit at home listening hooked on phonics on cassette tapes, my parents concerned about me being behind in my reading. I was concerned about being called dumb and not smart, even though it was elementary school, and by the time I was eighth grade I couldn’t put certain books down. I lived in my little book worlds where I could escape.
While sitting there next t to this precious little girl on a tarp in the front yard, which was mostly dirt and dust, I realized that the Lord blessed me with this opportunity to help her. I realized that after years of my parents worrying about me and my learning abilities, that God never would give me something that would hold me back. Even though as a child I was diagnosed with ADD, doesn’t mean that will hold me back. In fact through God our weaknesses can become our strengths. My trouble learning and reading when I was younger, helped me understand and relate even more to this child that had a little trouble reading, I got to see from the outside that God gives us his timing on everything and that my being behind in reading didn’t stop me from helping this little girl with her homework. Also the Lord an help take her weaknesses and turn them into her strengths as well, because he has such great plans for her. You never know the Lord might have her become an English teacher when she grows up, God can be awesome in that kind of way.
