If you're from the area or read the few discrete comments made in a previous entry, you know that earlier this school year our school district came under attack for a Bible program offered at school during school. The Bible program was immediately ceased, and the Christian organization in town began devising a new plan of action that would be commendable by the law while also providing this unique program for our elementary students.
At the time this was all happening, I had a child in my class come to me very upset. She was disheartened that the Bible program had been cancelled because her parents would not take her to church and she enjoyed these weekly, 20 minute encounters with God. Whether or not she knew the depth of it all is not for me to judge. I was heartbroken for her, but the situation was beyond my control. However, her pain led me to pray harder for the resumption of the program and to try more diligently to live out a Godly example and sneak "God" comments into my teaching.
Today new Bible forms were sent home. The Christian Association in town has contrived a way to take the kids to an off-campus location every other week for these Bible classes. It will still take place during the day which is permissible because we already attend school more then the required number of hours each day. As I passed out the forms at the end of the day, this same little girl burst into a smile as she ran around the classroom chanting, "We get church! We get church!" It was hard for me to get her to calm down and gather her things to go home. As the smile spread even wider, I knew that this was just another defeat of my God on Satan.
It's children like this little girl that make the Bible program worth it. It's moments like this that remind me that no matter how "bad" things may get, God is in control. We serve an awesome God, and even in the trials His love and grace will always prevail.
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