Prayer Monday, June 25, 2011

I am thankful! God has been good this past week.  Nothing spectacular has happened and my son did have a minor accident but God has still been good.  We have a roof over our heads, food to eat and clothes to wear.  I am trying to be more thankful for the things God has given me instead of bemoaning the things I do not have.  

That being said I don't have a lot this week that I need prayer about.  Our church is having a marriage retreat this weekend so my husband and I will be spending the weekend in St Louis.  This will be the first weekend since my son was born that we will have an overnight trip alone!  I am excited about this time we are getting but also this will be my son's first overnight with someone else other than my husband or me.  It is my parents and they will be staying at our house to make it easier on everyone and I trust them but I'm his momma and he's my baby.

Pray that the marriage retreat is an awesome time for all couples attending.  That we will be able to shut out the world and all worries for the weekend and focus on our spouses!  

He does it again!

I am not quite sure I will ever stop having the emotions of near panic when my darling son injures himself.  I actually thought today's incident was going to warrant a trip in the ER but we only ended up having to go to the doctor.

My sweet boy was spinning in circles which is something he does on a regular basis.  This time he trip and hit his face on the corner of the coffee table.  He immediately started crying which for him means it is serious because he normally doesn't cry when he bumps something.  He buried his face in my shoulder and it took me a couple minutes to get him to let me look.  When I did he had a mouthful of blood!  I am thinking a bunch of thoughts simultaneously, "where's it coming from?", "Oh my gosh did he knock out a tooth".  Once I started cleaning him up I saw he had a gash toward the inside of his lower lip but I couldn't tell how bad it was.  I called my husband and rambled incoherently to him (he texted me later and said I'm not sure what is going on but I'm praying for the boys) all he heard was ER and blood.  Then I called my sister at work (she's an RN) and she said call the doctor before going to ER.  I called the doctor and they were so good about getting me an immediate appointment.

By the time we got to the doctor he wasn't crying, blood had stopped he was smiling and then I noticed he had something really dark purple almost black on his tooth.  I lifted his upper lip and he had managed to hit his gums on the table to and it looked worse than the lip.  By now I wasn't near the mess I had been so I took it in stride.  The doctor pretty much said mouth wounds bleed A LOT and also heal quickly.  Fortunately the gash wasn't big enough for stitches WHEW!

Oh and did I mention I was babysitting my 7 1/2 month old nephew too and he was there the whole time so I had to drag both boys to the doctor?  I didn't?  Well it was quite the adventure and both boys were so good. Pray for my son that his mouth will stop hurting and the swelling will go down please.  He's a trooper and I know God's hand is on him.

Here is to an uneventful rest of the week!

Prayer Monday, July 18, 2011

Yesterday our teaching at church was titled Powerful Prayer.  I have been thinking about it a lot.  The pastor was talking about how his mother prays for the impossible and expects it to happen.  Like for people you would never expect to become Christians.  That really hit me.  I have a friend, well he is actually my husband's friend, that is pretty much a self-proclaimed agnostic.  I am ashamed to say I have had doubts that he would ever become a Christian.  I have lacked faith that God can do the impossible.  I am going to be praying more fervently about this.  I ask that you pray about this also.

I am going to do that more often.  Pray for the impossible.  I think many times we don't get past looking at a situation with our own eyes.  I am going to ask God to open my eyes to see things more like He does.  Instead of seeing an impossible situation I am going to pray believing God will do the impossible.  I am not saying I am not still going to struggle.  I was just so inspired by the teaching last night.  My heart ached after listening.  Pray that God will continue to open my eyes.

Flashback

So during worship at church today.  I had a total flashback to my community college days.  For the most part we sing contemporary worship songs but we are trying to incorporate the occasional gospel song to attract a more diverse variety of people.

The first song we sang was a gospel type song.  It made me think of my choir in community college and a gospel cantata we did.  Actually the majority of my readers were in that choir :).  The song was just so energizing and powerful.  I loved it.  Not that the other songs weren't wonderful but I just connected with that first song tonight.  I was able to just focus on God and was so pumped.   I actually felt like they should have switched the song order around and ended worship with that song.  Do you ever have a song that just takes you back to another time in your life?  I have this happen often; fortunately this took me back to a wonderful time.

The Escapee

So I am not sure but we MAY transition my son to a toddler bed soon.  The reason is quite fun.  He has been throwing his leg over the top of the crib for awhile now but the other night while my husband was putting him to sleep (which consists of sitting in the rocker while he falls asleep in his crib) he escaped.  My husband was sitting right there and watched the whole thing.  When I asked him why he didn't stop our son, he said he was just in shock watching it. He didn't just go over the edge an fall.  Apparently he put one leg over and then the other and lowered himself slowly to the floor.  That kid has some upper body strength.

I say MAY transition because I am not sure he would stay in the toddler bed to fall asleep.  I am certain that if he woke up in the middle of the night he would leave his room.  We would have to put up a baby gate in his doorway because he has no qualms about wandering around in the dark.  Though I am sure he would come straight to our bedroom.  I am just not sure if I am ready to go through all of that.  I mean I think he would come to our room but the idea of him just roaming the house terrifies me!   I think that when he wakes up in the middle of the night he is still half asleep and doesn't even think about climbing out of his crib.  He hollers for us instead.  So I am probably just borrowing trouble here.

He does make me laugh in amazement though at the things he does like lowering himself out of the crib instead of just falling out haphazardly.  He keeps us on our toes.

Prayer Monday, July 11, 2011

Wow, I typed in the date in the title and realized we are already nearly halfway through July!  July has been a good month though.  God has been really speaking to me.  Part of that may be because I am trying to be better at listening to Him instead of just talking to Him.  Isn't it funny how many times we complain because we don't think He is speaking to us only to look back and realize we haven't given Him a chance to get in a word or two.  I am so guilty of this on a regular basis.

Please pray for me this week that I continue to listen to what God has to say to me instead of doing all the talking.  I have found our relationship is so much sweeter this way.  Also, while you are at it if you could pray for my knee.  I am having pain when I kneel or pressure is put on it.  It's been going on for nearly 3 months and I finally went to the doctor.  The X-Ray came back fine so she said if it doesn't improve in the next six weeks she wants to order an MRI.  Please pray for healing so I don't have to have the MRI.

God has been so good to me the past couple of weeks that I don't have a lot for you to pray about.  I am definitely not complaining.  Normally I feel like my list goes on forever.  I am so thankful all of you who do pray for me because I know it makes a difference!

Have you ever?

Have you ever blogged in your head at the most inappropriate times?  I know you are probably thinking, "Armanda you don't blog with much frequency".  You're right I barely blog once a week.  I would do it more if I didn't create my posts at the wrong time.

I have found myself on more than one occasion blogging in my head during a church service!  The pastor will say something and my mind will start wandering on that certain topic.  Then I will think ooh that would make a good post and then I start composing in my head.  I end up not posting it because I feel guilty because I have been disrespectful to my time with God.  He has forgiven me and I am trying to be better!

So here is to creating blog posts at a more appropriate time.  For example, when the service is over and hopefully I remember the topic :)