Children and Owwies

Over the weekend on my errand day my son Noah got hurt. He fell on the corner of a bookcase next to my bed (he couldn't have been jumping could he?) and put a big gash in the back of his head. I wan't home at the time, my dh was. Well, I got home and checked it and sure enough it was big. I sighed as I saw that it could use stitches. I didn't really want to make another ER visit. So I grabbed my super glue tube and got to work. I cleaned the wound again, my husband had done a great job cleaning it while I was gone so I just redid it to make extra sure it was clean. Then I held the wound together and glued it together. We waited about 15 minutes and added another coat. Then because it was not the fast drying super glue we waited about an hour before we allowed him to play. This has worked well and it is healing up beautifully. Now I don't want you to think that I wouldn't have taken him to the ER had I really thought he needed it. You will remember that not long ago on errand day Elijah got his finger sliced open with the yard trimmer and had to go get stitches. I looked at his wound to see if it was glueable, but it wasn't and the poor kid had to get a lot of tiny stitches (he healed great by the way). This makes me wonder if I should even go do errands at all? But wait Moses fell when we were all out doing errands and had to have his chin glued closed (he has a nasty scar, poor kid). Hmmm, maybe it is just errands and has nothing to do with me leaving at all? Anyway today poor Noah got bonked in the head about 2 inches from his glued together wound by his 2 year old sister. This raised a large bump and brought a small amount of blood. He is doing well.

Kid's are such troopers. They get cuts and bruises and even broken bones and if they know we love them and are there they are fine. This is the way we should be with our Father. Life can cut us and bruise us and even break us. But we need to look to our Father, see that He is still with us and loves us and be fine. We shouldn't cry and stress and live in fear. We should rest in knowing that even though it hurts He is still with us, holding us through it.

Why is this so hard? I know for me, I will be terrified of something that never happens. When I should instead just look to my Father for provision. And even when horrible things do happen, and they do, I need to be at peace because my Father is in control. I so want to live this way, and sometimes I think I am. But recently I discovered that I am just burying it. I sometimes get cold sores, but not very often, usually only when sick or very stressed. Well I am on my second cold sore in three weeks, and I have not been sick. So obviously I am stressed and not trusting my Father. This is not how I want to live. I want to be at peace in Him knowing that He is watching over everything and it will all work out one way or another. So I am going to meditate on some verses and look to Him and try my best to give it ALL to Him an not take it back. He is so faithful, I want to trust Him as my children trust me.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." Hebrews 13:5

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17

Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me! Psalm 66:20