A Stellar Day of Learning

Asherel received her first dividend from her share of Disney stock. As she ripped open the envelope, I am sure she was thinking of all the amazing things she could now purchase. Only age 13 and an official investor! Would she get the iPhone she had been salivating for? Or maybe a trip to England to walk on the very ground the Beatles themselves had trod. She pulled out the dividend check.

40 cents. The check was for 40 cents.

It had cost more than that to mail it! And along with the check were all kinds of graphs and charts outlining how her stock was generating such amazing revenue for her.

Later we went to test our latest helicopters. All three broke. Now we have no working helicopter for Science Olympiad. And I have developed a nasty chest cold. I felt like taking that 40 cents and hopping on a plane as far as it would take me. How far can you fly on 40 cents?

I would research that myself but our computer broke.
Yesterday.
Right before we went to test and break three helicopters.
When I realized I felt sick enough to consider the possibility of pneumonia.
After the bonanza of 40 cents to offset all those disappointments.

We all have days like that and i always exaggerate to make my points. But even without exaggerating, I think it is safe to say yesterday will not get a smiley face on the calendar.

Asherel is worn out building things and trying to keep up with a hectic school and extracurricular schedule and I am sick, probably from accompanying her on that hectic schedule. It is sometimes difficult to persevere when the things going wrong begin to pile up.

As I was sketching a forest yesterday, I noticed how dark, and empty the tree limbs were. The scene could have been gloomy except the sun poked through, laying spatters of golden light on the trunks and forest floor.
"It's Not so gloomy! " I thought.
And if we learn most from our failures, then it was a stellar day of learning.

Isaiah 29:18 NIV

In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.

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