Thinking

I have been pondering a situation with my neice for almost a week now. She turned 18 on January 7, 2010. Now she has decided that she is too old to deal with the expectations of her mother and father. She told told me that she could not handle the stress of living at home any longer. They asked her to go to school, hold down a part-time job, and make sure her room stays clean. It seems like the same situation that I lived in as a child.

I went to school, making a 3.8 GPA in all honor's classes, had a part-time job working at a day care, and was expected to keep my room clean and be involved in keeping the house clean. This never seemed too stressful for me. I did it with ease. I even had time to hang out with my friends, go to church, and have a relationship with my boyfriend (who is my husband now).

My husband had the same life. He went to school (made straight A's his entire Senior year), had a part time job working at a grocery store, kept his room clean, helped around the house, and had time for me, friends, and church.

I am just wondering what has made my neice's life so stressful, that she thought leaving home would reduce that stress. I have always been told that God will never give you more than you can handle. And we need to take time to stop and listen to His plans.

I am praying that my neice in all of her "stress" will take a moment to stop and listen to God's plan for her. I don't want her to have so many worries that she forgets to see what God has done for her. And she misses out on the glories that God has in store. I am asking for prayers to be raised up for my neice, that she will be able to take a step back from her life, to look and listen to what God has to say to her. I am also praying that I will be an example and a beacon of light in the darkness she is in right now.