I had full confidence and hope that God would come through for me. That He would send Cambria friends on the first day at her new school because, after all, He led us to this new place. I believed that until, on my way to a work appointment, I got a text from Cambria that said things were not going well.
Tacoma School of the Arts had a 3 day camp at the start of each school season. The idea was to get kids comfortable with one another and to make friends. Well Cambria being her cheery, confident self went up to an upperclassman and introduced herself, “Hi, I’m Cambria.” Then came his response as he mimicked her in a high-pitched tone,”Hi, I’m Cambria,” and all his friends laughed. The conversation degraded from there and she was verbally harassed on and off through out the weekend. Though I will say as uncomfortable as this was, she had a few friends rally for her.
This was not how ‘my faith’ pictured her first week of school to be. It was hard to make sense of the events that happened because there was a part of me that felt that if God led me some where or asked me to do something that He would provide peace for my kids.
Well that brings me to this week. Cambria is at her second year of SOTA camp. She was voted Treasurer and her and a team of students have been meeting for weeks now to prepare for this event. Her negative experience has created some real insight and caused her to have a vision for the incoming sophomores. I just got a text from her that reads: Really fun being older and making sophomores feel better.
