what a great patient!

so earlier this week LJ came down with some kind of stomach thing and is finally getting back to her normal self - Praise the Lord!
then this morning Seth came down with some kind of stomach thing. only his was way worse. poor man...all i wanted to do was cry for him. but he was/is a trooper and a great patient. he knows how upset stomach stuff makes me so he would close the bedroom and bathroom door before he was sick. he's been trying to make it seem as if it's not that bad, when i can tell he feels awful.

and earlier this week he even brought home beautiful flowers for me and told me what a wonderful job i was doing as a mom, even during the hard times. and he had brought home some lilies for lilly jo, because she's the best daughter:) again, almost made me cry.

now i'm sitting in the loft just pretty much praying non-stop for seth and also for myself and jack, whenever God has it planned for him to arrive...

seth mentioned something interesting to me today...he said while he was feeling so disgusting inside, he was also seeing things on the outside that were disgusting...for example, the show Friends. i have to say that show has been a favorite of ours for quite sometime, and many nights we fall asleep watching it together. having said that, we know there are many parts of that show that are not honoring to God and, well, downright disgusting. but we have told ourselves for awhile that we overlook the 'bad parts' and just enjoy the funny parts, which there are a lot of. but does 'overlooking the bad parts' really keep us from being polluted by them? probably not.

i can't help but think back to what Peter wrote in the Bible in 1 Peter 4:1-2 - "1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. 2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God."

i remember my dad speaking about this same passage after he had suffered so long with cancer...

i know that sickness is only one kind of suffering, but i believe God has used it today to reveal to seth (and myself) something in our lives that He wants us to change so that we can live more for His will.

this post is one that i'm sure has many points that could be developed much further, and many thoughts that aren't complete or seem jumbled and random...so forgive me for that and take from this what you will.

if you would, we'd love your prayers.

:)