One sick boy, Moving, and the God's Amazing Support through it All

This week is our crazy week which is jammed packed with preparing to move and moving. Adding into it Dustin's busy schedule and now a sick boy. Wow!


Danny woke early on Monday morning at around 3am. He seemed warm, but went back to bed and from his wake up time at 5:30 until 8:15 when he left for school he was my normal happy4 year old. I ran to the store with Josh and my friend Lindsay to buy some groceries before the crazy week really began. We got home and I laid down for a nap because I am still quite fatigued and my condition is still acting up from my two weeks without Hong Li, our ayi. I laid there for a little while until Dustin came in and said Danny had been sent home from school with a rash and a fever. Dustin mentioned that he had been running around, so he might just be over heated. I took his temperature and found it was at 102.7F. I looked at his throat and saw white spots. I quickly called the doctor to find that they were booked until Tuesday at 10am.


With Danny being sick and having a doctor's appointment in the morning, I contacted my bible study group to let them know what was going on and why I would not be able to join them. Then I set out to explain to Danny why he was not going to be going to his friend Jule's (pronounced Ula) birthday party. After lots of tears, we were able to come up with a pizza and movie night to make our sick guy feel a little better.


The next day at the doctor's appointment was told the dreaded news--they suspect hand foot and mouth disease, which means no school until it clears up--probably a week says the doctor. So now, I have to prepare for a move and have two boys home through it all.


That afternoon, while Josh was playing quietly in the playroom while Danny slept I was sitting there thinking of how fatigued I was and this was after I took a nap myself earlier. Dustin was out that night on a business meeting, and it is in those moments that I can feel so overwhelmed by everything. Yet, I was reminding myself of the truths that this is my new normal and that God sees me through each and every step and provides all that my family and I need. It was at this moment that the phone rang.

It was one of the women in my Bible study on the phone. She explained they had organized at the bible study this morning to bring us meals at the end of this week and through the begining of the next. I was speechless. God is so awesome in how he can answer us so quickly. He was saying, yes Jackie I do meet your every need and hear your every call, and using the wonderful women in my study group to do so.


It reminds me of Isaiah 40: 28-31--"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary and tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to te weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary." So I am so grateful that God is so amazing and he uses every means possible to support us through this life. What peace that brings...We may make it through this week after all. :)