Answered Prayers

So those of us who believe in a God who gives chickens a rest, also believe that the same God listens and responds to our requests. This week I have heard of several answered prayers and thought I would share. The boys and I have been reading a book about WW2 heroes that received the Medal of Honor. One, named Desmond Doss, was actually a conscientious objector. His fellow soldiers made fun of him, despised him, even threatened him, because he refused to fight with a weapon. He was made a medic, and during the taking of Okinawa, he rescued 75 men while under fire. He offered himself when others were hiding in fox holes or behind rocks. How did he manage this death defying feat? He prayed. He prayed for himself, his leaders, and his fellow soldiers. Last week a lady was telling me what a terrible time she was having with a neighbor. The neighbor lives downstairs and constantly complained about my friend walking around at night. The complex she is living in also wouldn't fix her toilet, and she was having a terrible time working around that. She has a background that makes it difficult for her to cause waves, so she was accepting that this is the way it has to be. I prayed right then and there, along with several other women, that the neighbor would be a friend and that the toilet would get fixed. Well guess what? She has a new friend and the toilet is fixed. Another prayer has been for a little girl I know. She is two years old and her eye has been turning in all of a sudden. Several different doctor visits have shown that she is very far sighted, and she got glasses yesterday. The eye is starting to move over! She still has an MRI this afternoon to rule out anything else, so we continue to pray. These may seem like small occurences. These things could have been solved without God's intervention. But knowing that God is there for us, big or small, is very comforting. The story of Desmond Doss wasn't in a Christian book. It was in a Scholastic book on war. It surprised me to read that in a trade book. Isn't it sad that hearing how people depended on God has become something you aren't to share with the public? Maybe if more of us told the big and little things God does for us, just maybe, more people would depend on him. What has God done for you this week? ----------- As I picked up the extra kids from school yesterday, I told them about the triplets. "Dang," said #3, "that's a lot of kids." Couldn't have said it better myself. We now have 11 goats, and 4 more are pregnant! A man stopped yesterday who would like to buy some from me. Thank goodness.