Not a sparrow

I shared a room with another teacher, and as my class was ending, hers would soon be beginnning so she walked in as I was finishing my phone conversation.  The team of teachers I worked with all knew Ashley had gone to the endocrinologist.  I looked at her, numb, and said, "They know what's going on with Ashley."  When I told her she had Mosaic Turner's, her eyes welled up.  She said, "That's what I have."  You have to know, Sharon is this petite ball of fire.  Tiny and not a force you want to mess with.  And when she came to the school, we just took her as such.  She never said anything, we just loved and knew her as Sharon.

God knew.  God worked out circumstances to bring her to that school (she was a new teacher that year), to have me share a room with her, to have our desks in our office face each other daily, to have her be the first person I shared that news with, to let me see His provision of letting me know, "I have this.  Ashley is going to be okay.  Look at this wonderful child, Sharon, of mine.  See her full life."  I was blown away.  He is each of our personal saviors.  He loves each of us THAT much.  Matthew 10:29 says, "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care."

I was still stunned.  I walked out of the room and called John.  There were many tears.  Ashley was going to be okay.  But no mother wants her child to endure anything...if only we could cocoon them. It sounds silly, I know.  But it's the heart of every mother.  There was more for me to learn here. 

I shared the news with my community group at church and again was blessed to have people in my life to help me process life.  When I told them Ashley may not be able to have children, Holly said, "we are not going to claim that. God is in charge.  I know science/medicine tells us what they may or may not know, but ultimately God is in charge."  From that moment on, I not only prayed healing for her womb, but have already claimed healing and victory there and thanked God for her healing.