My heart has been troubled for several days with the weights of responsibilities on our family. Today my heart is heavy, worried about my baby. I am grateful for simple answers to prayers! I know that Jesus Christ knows my family, and I know that he works many miracles in our behalf. Today I pray that J's feet can heal without drastic surgical procedures like skin grafts. We are headed to the hospital once again tonight. Yesterday I wasn't prepared for the sight when they took off his bandages. I pray that today will not be magnified again like it was yesterday. J has been VERY sensitive about his feet today. Yesterday he hardly complained about them. Today I have given him Tylenol every four hours because he has been crying about them hurting. I am sure that with that they hurt bad! By 10:00 a.m. this morning, the foot they cut the blister off yesterday was weeping out of the bandages. They covered the whole foot with some salve, not triple antibiotic this time, and I didn't want to take that medicine off it because I didn't have any to replace it with, so I just layered a flour sack towel to the top of the bandages so it wouldn't drip all over. I have changed that a couple of times now. B is gone to missionary prep, and when he gets home, we are going in together. I pray for miracles and good news. The song "Be Still My Soul" was a special message sent to me today, opening the book to that page during the Sacrament at a missionary farewell for J.L. from the basketball team. Then in YW's that was the opening song and they didn't stop at just one verse as usual. The words read:
1. Be still, my soul: The Lord is on thy side;
With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In ev’ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav’nly Friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
2. Be still, my soul: Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: The waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.
“124: Be Still, My Soul,” Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, no. 124
I cried when I flipped to that page in Sacrament meeting, but when I walked in to hear my daughter L playing it for the chosen opening song in YW I wept. I know that this was a message sent special for me. Thank you for your loving mercy Father! Thank you for my Savior! I am grateful for loving guidance and encouragement when the road is fuzzy!
Fast forward - we just returned from the hospital and...
MIRACULOUSLY... J's feet were mending tonight! Thank you Father!! Prayers are answered, and we will rejoice that it could be much worse! It is not good, but it could be worse! Thank you for miracles, and even steps toward healing this quickly! There were no surprises when the removed the bandages tonight. The one spot where they removed the very large blister yesterday shed another couple of layers of skin, they said that was exactly what they wanted to see, and the skin underneath looked bright pink, a good sign they promised! I am so grateful for amazing human bodies created by a loving Father who knows and cares. I am thankful for miracles for me, and I will be still, and praise my Father, trusting in His care and the loving, supportive, generous care of my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. I Need Thee Every Hour.
1. Be still, my soul: The Lord is on thy side;
With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In ev’ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav’nly Friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
2. Be still, my soul: Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: The waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.
“124: Be Still, My Soul,” Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, no. 124
I cried when I flipped to that page in Sacrament meeting, but when I walked in to hear my daughter L playing it for the chosen opening song in YW I wept. I know that this was a message sent special for me. Thank you for your loving mercy Father! Thank you for my Savior! I am grateful for loving guidance and encouragement when the road is fuzzy!
Fast forward - we just returned from the hospital and...
MIRACULOUSLY... J's feet were mending tonight! Thank you Father!! Prayers are answered, and we will rejoice that it could be much worse! It is not good, but it could be worse! Thank you for miracles, and even steps toward healing this quickly! There were no surprises when the removed the bandages tonight. The one spot where they removed the very large blister yesterday shed another couple of layers of skin, they said that was exactly what they wanted to see, and the skin underneath looked bright pink, a good sign they promised! I am so grateful for amazing human bodies created by a loving Father who knows and cares. I am thankful for miracles for me, and I will be still, and praise my Father, trusting in His care and the loving, supportive, generous care of my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. I Need Thee Every Hour.