Lessons from a Child

Well, we almost made a trip to the Emergency Room today.

I usually let the kids have candy after they eat lunch, and today was no different. A little bit later, Selah came to me grabbing her throat and crying. She said she was messing around with Kira and accidentally swallowed the whole mint she'd been sucking on. Once I got her to calm down, I realized she was breathing fine, but obviously uncomfortable. I began having flashbacks of when Kira swallowed three coins...haven't we been down this road before???

This time, things seemed different. Selah was not gagging and drooling like Kira had been. I quickly got on the Internet to see if drinking water and trying to get the candy to melt would be a good plan, or if that would cause more problems. I also tried to call Ask-A-Nurse, but just got put in a holding pattern. It was then that my darling Selah thought of the most important thing we should do..."Mommy, can we pray?" she asked in her sweet voice. Pray? Why hadn't I thought of that? Of course we can pray, and pray we did.

A couple of minutes later, she started acting like she was going to puke. Ahh...now this was looking even more like Kira's money fiasco, so I quickly had everyone jump in the van and wait for Selah, who had gone to the bathroom thinking she was going to hurl. Before we got everyone loaded, Selah came bouncing down the stairs declaring, "My throat doesn't hurt anymore! Mommy, I think it's gone." Before the words could even cross my lips, my 8-yr-old quickly said, "Thank you, God!" and thank Him we did...

"And he said: 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.' " ~ Matthew 18:3-4