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We tasted so many of God's blessings this week, I wanted to put them down before they were forgotten... - When Abel's babysitter let us know that she could not watch Abel Wednesday because she had sick kids, my mother-in-law cancelled her plans to watch him for the day. - The next day, when his sitter still couldn't watch him, we asked a neighbor to watch him.  We got a call at 10:15 Wednesday night that the neighbor had sick kids, too.  So on Thursday morning, at an early 7:15, I called a sweet friend from church who had volunteered to watch Abel, should we ever need it.  She changed her plans, and made herself available to watch him, even taking him to a program at her child's school and then bringing him back to my classroom at the end of the day. - Last weekend, Scott and my father-in-law, Steve, went to install our new microwave.  A few weeks ago, our six-year-old microwave died suddenly.  God blessed us by allowing us to use our toaster oven and sto...

Pa in has this alarming and brutal wa y of tak ing our eyes off God and turning our eyes on ourselves... and taking our eyes off the needs of others, and focusing them on our own experience .  I know this has been true for me.   I have been fighting to overcome it, asking Him to help me see and meet the needs of others... By way of background, I have been unable to sit for more than a few minutes at a time since the beginning of June, as a result of sudden-onset back pain.  After spending the summer trying acupuncture, a chiropractor, and physical therapy, my doctor allowed me to get an MRI at the end of September.  The MRI showed arthritis and a bulging disc, the latter which ha d been the suspicion by the professionals trying to help me. October 10 was the day I finally had my appointment with the spine specialist in the big town near us.  Family and friends from church joined with us in praying that I would find help for my back.  I prayed that...