Journal of Faith: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12

I am so overwhelmed today with God's loving care for me.  I am so grateful, and I had to tell someone because God gave me a revelation about myself.  Today I had the privilege of receiving my two nieces for a sleepover.  I always get excited to see them, but when they arrived they were coughing and drippy.  I thought to myself, "didn't their mom say they weren't sick just yesterday?" I readied myself for what I knew would be a germy and unpleasant visit.  I pulled out the medicines and the blankets and I put on a pot of tea.  By the end of the day my son was coughing too, although I suspect they are sympathetic rather than symptomatic.  Three little coughers laid down to sleep in my room.  One began to cough so badly that the medicine I gave her reappeared on my sleeve, but with the help of grandma she was able to get back to sleep. Not long after that her little sister began to cough in her sleep to the point where she brought back up all of her...

        I recently was getting my son ready for school so quickly that I forgot to look before I put the first food I could reach in my mouth. He had left part of his cereal uneaten, and I was fortunate to be the benefactor of his poor appetite. For medical reasons I won't go into I had also given my son some ketchup which he happily spooned down before getting on his bus. I hadn't noticed that some of the ketchup had dropped into his uneaten cereal when I took a huge bite into my breakfast surplus. Yes, as the title clearly states, my needless desperation resulted in me eating ketchup flavored breakfast cereal, and I ate it all!         The LORD gave me two revelations as I wondered what motherhood had turned me into. The first thing that GOD did after laughing at me (he does that you know) was tell me that I should have looked in before I dug in. This is a word concerning discernment. While it may be rude to look a gift horse in the mouth, it i...