The just-concluded examinations release season offered lessons for me. I marvel at the things that truly makes our God the Almighty. Because, like Pastor Wilson Bugembe sang in his song Ani, no one can manage God’s position even for a day. As the results trickled in, I was amused by the different reactions, some of which, if we are not careful, will entrench in our children the culture of entitlement, ungratefulness and ‘some more please’. In one scenario, a 13-year-old stood up in my church on Sunday during testimony time and effusively thanked God because she had passed with a second grade and had a chance at secondary. In the same church, though, a 19-year- old who scored 12 points at HSC was borderline depressed, as was another young man who scored 18 points at HSC but wanted 20. The pressure on our children to score the ‘perfect’ points and join the ‘perfect’ schools is unleashing all kinds of demons in them. I don’t know how true it is that one student even committed suicide this year, because she passed, but didn’t get the score she wanted. In another scenario, a mother whose son scored a second grade was happily praising God that her son had ‘failed’, because she had had a big argument with her husband over the wisdom of registering a P6 pupil for PLE just because he was too smart. The father felt if he could pass PLE a year early, they could save a year’s worth in tuition. The mother asserted that he needed all seven years of his primary education for wholesome development. When the results were released, it was unanimous: the boy would continue to P7, making his mother so thankful. I imagined what God’s ‘prayer switch-board’ must look like and how He even handles such a mixture of prayers from billions of people! Parents and pupils with aggregate eight in PLE are tearfully asking God, “Why Lord, why!?” Parents with pupils that scored 18 points in the same exam are jumping around in joy and offering sacrifices of thanksgiving. Let us teach our children to be thankful in all things; that girl who testified about her second grade made my week.The post Tough work being God Almighty appeared first on The Observer.