![]() ![]() ![]() For some reason, I especially had trouble with the word the. I spent most of the first grade in the caboose. ![]() If we missed the word, we had to go to the caboose. The teacher held up a spelling flashcard for us to identify the word. We lined up our miniature wooden chairs in a row like a choo-choo train. But first grade only confirmed my greatest fear: I was “not enough.” Just 6 years old, I’d skipped off to school with a new box of crayons, a Swiss polka-dotted dress, and fresh hope that I would be smart. “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)Īs soon as my first-grade teacher held up that initial spelling flashcard, I knew I was in trouble. ![]()
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