God our Loving Father

One of the most challenging things about parenthood for me is caring for a sick child. It’s so challenging because I’m a worry wart, and I don’t want my children to suffer. Fulton has fallen ill since yesterday. He’s running a fever and just not his usually smiley cheerful bright eyes. Although he does sweetly let me hold him for long periods of time instead of running off to get into mischief!

It’s during these challenging times that I learn more about God our loving Father and how much He cares for us even when we’re too ill spiritually or physically to realized He is cradling us in His arms. I learn that He appreciates when we take our sweet “spritual medicine” (reconcilation) knowing that He gives it to us to make us better…rather than fighting Him and making more of mess of our lives. I learn to depend on Him to heal my babies just as my babies look to me to make everything better. I learn that sometimes the medicine works faster when we just let Him hold us and love us as a father (and mother) should. And I learn how much joy it gives Him when His other children pray for those that are ill as I saw Therese kneeling in Fulton’s room praying, “Dear Jesus, please help Fulton feel better so we can go to the park.”