I'm emotionally worn out.
First the car and then I got to Saginuma for class and the copier was broken. I'd chosen a tough article for tonight's class that was heavily-laden with vocabulary and had done a good deal of work putting together some exercises to practice that vocabulary.. only... with the copier unusable, so were the exercises. Twenty minutes until class started and I thought I was going to cry. In fact, I felt like I very well could break down in tears at that very moment, and even more so once they were all sitting in front of me--everyone present and accounted for, the largest group I'd had at Saginuma in weeks; and they all were seconds away from witnessing my first breakdown in Japan.
But even quick prayers lead to big results because our God is Big. It's not even until this moment that I've realized He's answered my own prayers. Once again, I have no idea what I'm praying for sometimes. In my other classes, after reading of the firey furnace and how our God is the Supreme God, bigger than a king, bigger than a gold statue, bigger than ropes, and bigger than a blazing fire, I'd prayed for God to open our eyes this week to his Bigness. And here He's done it. For despite my lack of any sort of preparation, they understood the vocabulary. In fact, with the makeshift exercises we pulled out, it seems that they really got the meaning of the words, more than they've shown before. It was exciting to me to see hear them yell out the words so quickly when I read the definitions...
..Wow. It's just awesome how great out God is.
And thinking back to this afternoon... how crummy the situation with the car was, but how wonderfully God provided. The gentleman with the cell phone. The gentleman who helped push my car uphill and off to the side. Steve who came all the way out to get me. God's just good like that.
Ya know? :)
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