right place right time

Recently, my female owner has been learning more about trusting God to lead her in the right direction. Specifically, she was challenged to trust that God will meet her needs by allowing her to be “in the right place at the right time”. There were a few things which happened recently which opened up her eyes to this prompting.

Practical Exam
There was an Assessment Station where she had to read a case study and answer the questions that followed. The examiner for the station was her very own supervisor. The final question was “what would be the key elements of your treatment plan?” My female owner, for all the hours she spent in the clinic and in supervision, did not really understand the question. Hence, she did not know what the right answers would be. She just babbled whatever that came to mind, even things which she never talked about in supervision. Her supervisor later fed-back that she was very impressed with her treatment plan because it was comprehensive and had good outcome measures (ie those things which she babbled out).

Her coursemates and her tried to spot the likely question which would be tested in the Therapeutic Processes Station (which involved a role-player). They thought that they had to tackle a parent who was non-compliant with homework. It turned out that the parent did not believe that time-out was a good strategy. Rather, he believed that smacking was a better strategy. My female owner could not believe her eyes when she read the scenario, coz smacking was an issue that came up recently in one of her supervision sessions. Hence, she was able to combine what she had previously learnt from her supervisor and her Intuitive Fren to come out tops in this station.

My female owner had no doubts that God had helped her to meet the requirements of the different stations, because she had prayed about it and there was no way she could have managed the demands of the assessment based on her current skills.

Clinical Psychopathology Exam
This was the examination which my female owner was fretting over because she didn’t have time to read through her notes sufficiently and had problems remembering the important points and diagnostic criteria of the different mental disorders. She knew for sure that she did not do well for the written assignment, simply because she did not do a good intake interview and hence, could not formulate the case properly. She was right. She got 27/40 for the essay. She got 49.25/60 for the exam. That gave her a total of 76.25/100 for the module (which is worth 2 units, ie double-weighage). Although she aimed for grade 7 for all her modules (i.e. 85-100 marks), she knew that it was highly impossible for this module, given the professor’s reputation for being a strict marker. Given that only one person got more than 85 marks, she was very contented to have scrapped through with a grade 6 (75 to 84 marks). Then at night, for some strange reason, she looked at the course outline and realised that to get a grade 7, she had to get between 76-100 marks, and not more than 85. Hence, in spite of her lousy essay, God provided her with sufficient marks for her exams to be upgraded to a grade 7 (and for a double-weighage course at that!).

(in case you are wondering why my female owner wants to get a grade 7 for all her modules, that’s because she hopes to upgrade her current programme and to do that, she needs an average of 5.5)

Bus stop
My female owner was at the university bus-stop just now. It was getting really cold and she didn’t have a jacket. So she was just checking out the bus time-table to see if it was worthwhile to wait for the bus (bus frequency at night is really questionable) or to endure a 15min walk home in the cold. She spent a few minutes staring at the time-table and finally decided to wait. The bus showed up after a minute or so, and she looked around to join the queue… only to realise that she was in the queue… at the head of the queue in fact. Although she did not realise that the spot she was standing was the usual start of the queue, other students had formed a line behind her. That was when she realised that God was trying to speak to her about trusting Him to lead her to the “right place at the right time”.


Although there are things/ daily hassles that still bother my female owner, she is learning to look beyond these to place God in the centre of her life. It has been a spiritual restructuring process for my female owner. Takes time, faith and humility and willingness.