It’s a good morning!

View in Vienna from the bridge Reichsbrücke over the River New Danube towards the footbridge Ponte Cagrana and to the hill range Vienna Woods in Austria.Michael Gäbler

Good morning, beloved of God,

On Monday, it was just one of those crazy days. Had to take Joshua to Urgent Care for severe muscle pain. The night before I slipped on water on the floor in Charlie Chaplin style and wrenched my back..Noah hurt his foot and while we were at the park, I got stung by a bee. Now it is interesting..I went to the park just wanting to keep my emotions under control and not share anything. Just keep it to myself to not “burden” people. I kept my sunglasses on, because my eyes are a dead giveaway. And then wham! A silly bee stings my leg and all of the emotions let loose. I was in soo much pain! And the body of Christ swooped in and became Jesus with skin on in my life.

So what happened? I think God was showing me that trying to hold it all inside was, in a way, prideful and selfish. Staying closed up, holding it all in..how could anyone be praying for me? Satan was whispering..it’s too much, nobody can handle your life anymore, keep quiet. What would we have lost? So much. The kids were taken to my dear pastor’s wife’s house. I had a chance to rest my back and then take Joshua to Urgent Care alone. And then they fed us dinner and we had fellowship, our burdens shared and our cares held in prayer.

Friends, I don’t even want to think about what would have happened if that bee hadn’t stung me. God uses strange ways to nudge me..this holds the prize. LOL.

Then yesterday, I sliced my palm, the bee sting turned into an angry welt, my jaw and back are out and Noah, well, Noah did tear his ACL in the leg he just had operated on…so he’s off his leg for two weeks with crutches..Yet God provided my Mom and Dad to help me with driving to doctors, feeding us  and sheltering us overnight. I go back to the chiropractor again today. My computer at home is on the fritz so my blogging has been non-existent these last few days. My apologies…

God has blessed me with hymns CD by Guy Penrod and as I was driving to my parents house, we listened to the whole thing. ( I won it somehow and Mr. Penrod signed my copy!) I had two songs floating in my head, God’s blessing. I want to share them with you.

Did I fall apart yesterday? Yes, I sure did. I wept a couple of times yesterday. I called my hubby in tears. The kids are reeling at all the happenings of our family. Their responses are very interesting and tell me so much about their little characters. Yet, when all of them were reacting and responding at the same time and while I was trying to figure out my own response..I will totally admit to you I became overwhelmed.

Then these songs kept coming into my head. Count your blessings, name them one by one, count your blessings, see what God has done.

Do you need to be reminded of all the blessings? Do you need to remember all that God has done? Count ’em, my friends. Count them.

In my homework for Precepts this week, it is reading 1 Peter repeatedly. May I encourage you to do the same?

Pray on. Pray on.