Secondly, be sure to vote in the fun poll on my blog home page. The question is: "What is your favorite month?" Mine is October. What is yours?
Thirdly....on to "The Chronicles of Biscuit":
Monday during P.E., Biscuit hurt his ankle. I noticed something was wrong immediately after school that day as he came out to the van hobbling and walking on his tippy-toes. I asked him what was wrong and he said he hurt it doing the "crab walk". He told his P.E. teacher, but coaches aren't always the most sympathetic to injuries, you know. They expect everyone to be tough! He told him, "You're okay." Biscuit didn't really like that, so he said.
I looked at the ankle, but didn't see anything bruised or red or swollen. He seemed fine after a while, so I didn't think any more about it.
Today after school, Biscuit hobbled out again, got into the van and said his ankle was still hurting. He said, "What do you think, Mom? Do I need crutches or a wheel chair?" Trying to contain my laughter, I told him that both of those things might help his ankle get better, but that he sure wouldn't get to play very much. I thought he would decide he didn't need either, but no. He said, "Well, I think a cast would be better." I asked him if he wanted me to just tape it at home, but he said he thought the doctor should just do a cast.
After we got home, Biscuit and Jacob played football some outside. Although I know it's hurting some, and it's obvious he's not playing quite as intense as usual, I know it's nothing serious and it certainly doesn't need a cast...and of course there's no need for a wheel chair! Thankfully, Biscuit's injury seems to be something very mild and nothing that will require a doctor's visit or treatment.
Jesus is described in the Bible as the Great Physican. He healed people physically and spiritually. One of my favorite stories of physcial healing in the Bible is about the woman who had bleed for 12 years.
Mark 5:24-34
So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' " But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
This woman had been to doctors many times and none of them could help her with her illness. But she had heard about Jesus and knew that he could heal her. In spite of the large crowd, the woman got close enough to Jesus to touch his cloak. Her faith and courage prevailed and with Jesus' power, she was immediately healed. What great faith this woman had and what a great example she is for us now!
As for Biscuit, it's funny that a kid who doesn't even like a Band-aid on because of the way it feels would even think about having a cast on his ankle. By tomorrow maybe it will be all better. God still can heal and we can and we should pray for His healing touch in all areas of life.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
1 comment:
He's so funny! It always cracked me up that one of my boys would come to dinner bleeding and not even notice it, while the other one would cry over a paper cut!
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