Frustrations!

So today I taught math and one of my students had a nervous breakdown because he didn't understand the worksheet. He made a big scene and banged around so I told him to stay in from recess. During recess I watched as he cried and told me his frustration with being stupid and not knowing how to do the worksheet. I wanted to badly to wrap my arms around him and tell him that I knew he could do it and that is why I asked him to. I wanted to tell him that I was feeling the same way and had shed many tears that very morning over what I was feeling.

The rest of the day I thought about my relationship with my Father in Heaven and I realized that he had given me the opportunity to see a small glimpse of how he feels. He has so many great expectations for me and my life and it is overwhelming sometimes because I don't have those expectations for myself. I often times sell myself short and cry and throw my tantrums and just say I can't do it.

Well, that student cried through his whole recess and then 10 minutes later came and handed me the completed worksheet. I decided then that I would put my best foot forward and try to live up to the expectations put on me because the Lord will not ask us to do anything that we can't!