It's like a puzzle that we're looking at from the bottom,

the puzzle is life, and God is the one putting the pieces together. You can't see why or how, you can't always understand, but you see that the puzzle is being put together. Who knows, you might not ever see the big picture until the end, but you have to have faith that God is making the picture exactly the way he indtends it to look like as long as you let him. Just lately I've become aware that the pieces of my life have been coming together.
My spiritual adventure began at age 7, when I became homeschooled. When I was 9 I went back to public school to try it out. God planned for everything that happened at school. Even the bad! I loved 3rd grade which made me want to stay at Sharon Elemenary. I hated 4th grade, and I hated 5th grade! Who knew that would lead up to who I am today? So when I decided to spend 6th grade at a Christian school, that's when things started coming together. NCS was like constantly being at church and Jesus came into every subject. That is about when I became serious about Jesus and stopped caring what my peers wanted and focused on hat God wanted me to do instead. In 7th grade I was ready to go back to public school again. It was a tough year, but it was the best so far because it fianally built up to where I am now.
The amazing thing is, if anything about school was different in my life over those 7 years, I'd be a very different person! I didn't see why God would have let school be so hard for me in 4th and 5th grade. Now I see! If school wasn't so bad then, I wouldn't have gone to NCS thus, my deeper relationship with God would have had to wait. It could have still been waiting now!
God's ways of working are so elaborate. You just never know! In fourth grade you never would have guessed that in 4 years, I'd be so layed back, and okay with school, and everything else!