Racing to Mass this morning since I overslept, I noticed a car pulled off the road. I stopped to walk back to the car to see if the person needed help. Lo, it was Tracy who lives a few doors from me. She was dressed in a Pink jacket and was smiling from ear to ear and explained that she pulled over to text someone. But she said she was just thinking of me because of her little son Josh whom I urged to her enrolled at Immaculate Conception along with her older son, Brandon, who already enrolled in the 8th grade at I.C.
She said - all smiles - that she was thinking of me because she took Josh to I.C. with her because she wished to go to I.C. to finish some school business for Brandon. Well, when she passed the First Grade class, she noticed all the children and the teacher who immediately came out to greet Tracy and to tell her that there was one seat left in her class - just waiting for Josh! The teacher then said to the class: "Would you like to have Josh in our class!" All said heartedly: "YES!" Even Josh - a really good and intelligent boy - was taken aback and said: "Why do they want me in their class?" Just then, Mrs. Steel, Principal. just happened to come upon the scene and affirmed that there truly was one seat left in the first grade; and that in the second and third grades there was a waiting list!
That was it! Tracy just completed the paper work - then and there - to transfer Josh into the first grade at Immaculate Conception! I told Tracy a few days ago that if I were Josh's dad, I would not hesitate to enroll him at I.C. I remined Tracy of those words to her a few days ago. She replied, "Well, Josh's Big Daddy wanted him in the class, too!" For sure, when, Josh will be 80 years old, he will remember that a whole class of kids wanted him! Talk about acceptance and belonging. Kids want to be accepted in the "in group"; but Josh was accepted into the whole group - all at once.
When you think of all the tiny events that caused Josh to get into I.C. - that he just happeded to be there at the right place and the right time, that the teacher noticed him and talked to his mom, that the principal just happened by - all this is not by chance - it is by Providence! God wanted Josh in this school in the worst way. Surely to prepare him for his first Holy Communion next year and to give him the best family of friends his own age. Life has so many surprises! But everyday, The Father in Heaven, shows His greeting to us in the warm, bright sunshine in our faces, the blue sky to show us that He is not only in the Heavens, He IS Heaven, and all the flowers to give us His smiles, and the cuddly clouds to give us His hugs! Amen.
Love, Pio
Just think of all these events in this geto
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