That’s when he had a one-sided argument with God. When God spoke through a burning bush and called Moses to lead His people out of Egyptian bondage, he had a big case of the “not-good-enoughs.” Moses was also someone who felt he wasn’t good enough. Although I ended up doing well in school, many times I’ve still felt like that little girl in the caboose. I learned I wasn’t as smart as everybody else, and once again, not enough. Students came up to me and asked,Įventually, I learned how to spell the, but that’s not all I learned. She made me a nametag that read t-h-e, and I had to wear it for two weeks.

I’ll help her, my teacher must have thought. 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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