Purposefullness

Today I was feeling rather replacable at work- mainly because I'm not going to do After School Program next year, and it feels like a step back to just be in the daycare, though I know that I need to concentrate on the final semesters of school. I was walking down the daycare hall to get juice for the new School Age Teacher- Miss Mandy and I saw Tim in the bathroom or rather I heard him wailing. Miss Abby- one of the summer teachers- was trying to convince him to put on his extra pair of clothes. He had already had oe accident earlier, so all that he had left were some overalls. Miss Abby asked me to help her out since I know Tim so well. I asked him why he didn't want to put them on: "I just don't!" Is it because they are overalls? "Yes!" We took him to the extra clothes bin and let him pick out some extra shorts. Tim is 5, and I really don't blame him for not wanting to wear the overalls- they had been in his box for a long time and were a little juvenile for someone as grown up as he. Miss Abby also asked me to pick out some underwear for him since he wuld have to wear some of the daycare's, which were rather toddlerish.
Its not that Miss Abby was doing anything wrong, or that it was even a big deal, but it really brought to the light how much I really know, and how blessed I am to have developed close relationships with many of these kids, where I can see past the behavior and into the underlying reasons. God is good to use something like a child's tantrum to show us just how we fit into His plans, even when we can't see our own purpose. That doesn't mean that I am going to stay at the daycare forever, but I need to get over this restless spirit of mine. I need to follow the old adage, "Wherever you are, be all there."