Just when I thought the coast was clear!
We have just today got the staples out of one small grandson’s head, when the four-year old had an accident.
It is funny how the hardest lessons learned are the ones that hurt. His mommy had told him and his sister to wait for her before they went out to play. But the trampoline was new and they were so excited, and mom was taking so long putting that load of laundry into the washer, they just couldn’t wait. So they went out and together stacked enough blocks and bricks to climb into the netted trampoline. They were having a great time chasing a ball around but it started to go out the net where the opening was, and my grandson tried to catch it but followed it out on his head. Mother just stepping out onto the back porch raced to the unconscious blood stained boy, after he hit the bricks below.
An emergency room visit and two staples later the lesson was learned to mind your mother when she says wait!
Last night the four-year old grandson across town from that one, decided to run and jump up onto a ramp laying on its side. Needless to say, he missed and went in headlong breaking his collarbone, getting a goose egg on his head, and knocking out of line his C1 vertebrae. But all he said was I am hurt, I need to go to bed. Next morning after x-rays we discovered the extent of his injuries.
The truth of the matter is, you just can’t keep them from getting hurt. You blame yourself, the elements, the weather, and God for these bad things that happen. But it is just a cruel twist in an otherwise normal day. But God does promise to help us through them. This poem was written by a lady who was born in 1866, whose mother died in childbirth in 1869, and was adopted due to her father’s incurable disease. Then in her early 20’s got severe arthritis which left her in pain and crippled for 40 years. This is what I call God’s witness of faith and grace.
WHAT GOD HATH PROMISED
Author: Annie Johnson Flint
God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
many a burden, many a care.
God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain rocky and steep,
Never a river turbid and deep
But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.
As parents we need to teach our children that for every season there is a purpose. We may not understand why things happen, but He promised we will understand it all by and by. Helping them understand that all things work together for good, and keeping them in the Word, will help them walk tall in this world.
We as authors are just beginning to touch on the trials and tribulations of our Wounded Worriers. Not all scars are visible, and we need to do our share in keeping their struggles and needs in the forefront of people’s minds. We can help share their load with support and prayers.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
I Peter 1:6-7
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle
I Peter 5:10
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
II Corinthians 12:9