When You're in the Middle of it All

Today, I’m over with my friend, Becky Harling.  She is an incredible speaker and author, mother of four as well as our our lead pastor’s wife.  This amazing woman of God is the author of a new book called “The 30 Day Praise Challenge”.  It is absolutely changing the way that I approach life (if I could give each of you a copy of this book I would!).  Today Becky invited me to share about a recent experience that had all the makings of good reality TV turned crisis.  Join me today… 

My entire family was in our backyard, pruning back the beginnings of fall from all our dead flowers.  

On this day, for whatever reason, I put my eight-year-old daughter in charge of the garden shears…yes, the big metal hedge shears you would use to trim tree branches (no, I don’t know why…).

As I held up the end of a huge flower for her to cut, my girl lined up the blades and mistakingly cut into my right index finger.  I painfully yelled for her to stop, and while she hadn’t taken my finger off, I knew it was bad.   Continue reading…