More Answers to Prayer!!

I cannot believe Christmas is almost here!  I have not done any Christmas shopping since Thanksgiving weekend.  My days have been filled with other busy tasks ... finishing up a class (I'm done - yay!), organizing a church Christmas program, hosting a Christmas open house in our home, accompanying our oldest son on his doctor visits, and so on.  

Not only will Christmas be here in a week, but Christianna's birthday is creeping upon me and will be here before I know it.  She will be 22 years old on Thursday!  Wow!  That is a hard one for me to swallow.  Where has time gone?  Anyway, she has requested an oatmeal pie (yum!).  I still need to inquire as to what else she would prefer to have on the menu of her special day.  I am just hoping it is not brats and broccoli (as she has requested before - ugh!)!  But, if that is what she wants, it is HER special day, so I will sacrifice ...  haha!

Christianna - 1 day old - Dec. 21, 1990

Christianna with Joshua a couple years ago

A couple weeks ago, I put some eggs on the stove to boil.  After turning the burner on, I set about doing other things in another room.  When I walked out of the room, it smelled horribly strange in our house.  I walked to the kitchen only to discover gray smoke billowing from our stove.  I immediately realized I had turned on the wrong burner; one with a cover on it (electric stove).  Oh no!  What should I do?  Of course, turn off the burner might be smart!  haha!  Nothing was destroyed except the burner cover, thank the Lord!  I have been praising Him for answering prayer and not allowing our entire house to burn down due to this incident.  I already have shared about our answer to prayer for Nathan's cyst area in his mouth.  Then, most of this weekend and today, I have had a horrible, almost unbearable migraine headache.  I have taken pills time and again which would relieve it a little, but not take it away.  When the pills would wear off, the headache was back with a vengeance.  Tonight, I didn't know what I was going to do.  I felt like my head was being cut in half!  The pills were not relieving the pain at all!  We had family devotions and James told Joshua to pray for Mommy to get better, which he did.  Later, James was having private devotions with Joshua before he went to bed.  On his own, Joshua once again prayed for me to get better (I had been praying too, not knowing what to do).  Not long after this, I realized, my headache was suddenly gone!!!!  I believe God answered my little boy's prayer!!  God is so good!  Joshua and I talked about Jesus answering his prayer before I tucked him into bed.  He doesn't quite understand it all yet, and had a lot of questions, such as, "How did Jesus answer the prayer, cuz' he is not here?"  "I cannot see Him."  Awww .... he is so cute, even if he is a livewire!  haha!  Well, I just had to share those specific answers to prayer.  We have experienced others recently as well.  I must say it again; God is soooo good!  I love Him so much!  

Hope you all are having a joyous Christmas season, and are remembering the reason of the season.  Please feel free to share some of your answers to prayer in the comments.  I would love to hear about them!