“Seeing her lying on the ER bed, I realized how little I can protect
\nher. As a mom I’ve made many choices, seeking what would be best for my
\ngirls, pursuing what would ensure their safety and health. But the
\ntruth of parenting is that I can’t control everything. I will see them
\nsuffer at times and I won’t be able to fix it.”<\/p>\n
This is from a post on Julie’s blog from a while back<\/a>. Both of my girls have had face crashes. Lindsey’s first was a Julie says, <\/p>\n “Psalm 91 makes bold claims about God’s protection and it For he will command his angels concerning you She wonders about how close they came to a much more serious injury and But I do frequently wonder about the angels or God’s influence on what But that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Seeing her lying on the ER bed, I realized how little I can protect her. As a mom I’ve made many choices, seeking what would be best for my girls, pursuing what would ensure their safety and health. But the … Continue reading
\nIt had quite an effect on me when I read it. I wanted to post
\nsomething about it but it was a little to strong and I couldn’t.
\nJulie’s post is about a trip to the ER with her daughter to get a cut
\ntaken care of. They were visiting the city of angels (LA) and her
\npost has some thoughts on angels and God and the concepts of God
\nlooking out for us. These are frequent thoughts for me and the
\ngirls. There are many very religious and caring people that make
\nDGI (don’t get it) statements about God’s wishes and his involvement in
\nour situation. Faith is something that is questioned during the
\ngrieving process.<\/p>\n
\nheader into the cement blocks and tile that form the hearth of our
\nfireplace. I wasn’t there to see that one so Cindy had the
\nopportunity to do the trip to the doctor and stitches. We were
\nnot all that impressed by the job they did and that scar is still
\nvisible today. Chelsey’s fall was a flying leap, as if she were a
\ndog, off the sofa and face first onto the corner of the coffee
\ntable. I saw that one in full color, super slow motion.
\nWhen I picked her up and carried her to the kitchen I fully expected
\ngushing blood and that she was going to have lost her eye. But we
\nwere lucky and it was just a rather clean deep cut just above the
\neye. After our experience with Lindsey we decided to do the Dr.
\nmom version and got some butterfly strips and patched her up
\nourselves. Lindsey would go on to do another face to the bathroom
\nsink crash that resulted in her just above the eye experience.<\/p>\n
\nis a hard psalm to read when one is wondering and suffering.<\/p>\n\n
\nto guard you in all your ways;
\nthey will lift you up in their hands,
\nso that you will not strike your foot against a stone.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nwonders if the angels somehow have some impact. Not in as to what
\nhappens but as to what doesn’t happen. That is, they didn’t stop
\nthe fall that lead to the injury but perhaps did lift just enough so
\nthe injury wasn’t as serious as it could have been. I too am
\namazed at how close the kids come to serious injury only to end up with
\nlittle cuts and bruises. I tend to attribute that to the
\nincredible design of human children. The bone structure around
\nthe eyes and the indented location of the delicate eye within that
\nsocket structure seems to be there just to protect our children from
\nmore serious damage when they fall.<\/p>\n
\nhappened to Cindy. One of the things that I think about is how
\nthe smallest change in the events of that day could have influenced
\nwhat happened. Just a tiny delay at school, or even losing her
\nkeys in her purse for a few seconds. At the speed he was
\ntravelling just a matter of a second and he would have missed the car
\nand driven into the empty field in front of the church. Just the
\nsmallest of angel lifts could have protected Cindy.<\/p>\n