Day 39

Well , day 39 was over yesterday! I did complete my ten things yesterday but I did not want to stay up late and write a blog so I am doing it this morning. If  I would have attempted to write it last night I would probably still be staring at a blank page.

I practiced my Spanish yesterday but I did not memorize any new words. I am still using the computer program.It works better than I thought it would. Mathew will be taking Spanish next year in school and I heard Ken working on it yesterday . It will be fun helping each other. I practiced the piano also but for some reason my  arthritis was worse yesterday and my fingers did not bend as well. That is ok, it is easy most of the time. I practiced my algebra. I checked my answers yesterday when I was done and I got two wrong so today I need to go back over it and see why. I started a new book and am half way through my other.When I was reading yesterday there was a story about a young man who was saved by an angel. The angel pulled him back before he stepped out in front of a car. When he tuned around to see who it was no one was around.

I have wondered how often they intervene when tragedy comes. Are they with us 24/7 ? Why they step in and help and other times things are allowed to happen. Only God really knows the answer to that. He is the one that sends them to help. I have wondered how often I have been rescued by angels through out my life and had no idea. I am sure I was a hand full growing up.There is one instance where I don't doubt for a minute I was surrounded by God's angels.

I was in my kitchen making dinner.I had fish in the oven, coconut shrimp frying on one burner and I had just slid a pot of clam chowder on the back burner after I dumped the bacon and half & half in so it could simmer. I grabbed a 9x13 glass pan and put paper towels in it to absorb the oil from the coconut shrimp. I set the empty glass dish on the burner in front of me and I started smelling something really hot after a few minutes. I looked down and noticed the paper towels were starting to look brown. I realized I had turned the wrong burner on.

I quickly grabbed two pot holders and picked up the dish and I held it up in front of my face and was looking at the dark paper towels. In an instant there was an explosion sound and Ken and the other kids came in the kitchen to see what it was. Glass was every where. It was in hundreds of pieces. One piece had hit Ethan's leg over by the sink. Glass was all over the kitchen .It was so hot and sharp it was embedded in medicine bottles in a basket next to me. It was on everything except me! I had flip flops on and when I looked down glass was in front of me , on both sides of me, and BEHIND me. It completely circled me. I was still holding the pot holders and nothing was in them.

 Ken quickly came over to me and he found one tiny shard of glass glistening on my bangs by my eye.He picked it off and we stared at it in disbelief. My face and arms should have been badly cut up and burned. I should have been blind. I was holding the glass in front of my face staring at it when it exploded. I knew at that very moment the depth of God's love for us as his children and I did not have to worry about every little thing. God has everything under control. We just have to let go and let God!


For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike a foot against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. Because he loves me," says the LORD, " I will rescue him; I will protect him for he acknowledges my name.    PSALM 91: 11-14