Last night I was feeling overwhelmed. I do hair part-time in our home and raise our 3 kids at the same time. Days like yesterday when I have few breaks to fix food, clean up ect, just gets overwhelming as I try to "do it all." I was especially feeling bad last night because I hadn't really been able to play with or teach the kids ANYTHING that day. I put the baby to bed and sent my two older kids to play upstairs while I cleaned up downstairs. I just couldn't shake my guilty feeling so I knelt down to pray. I prayed that I might be a better mom and that I might know if working part time was the right thing to do. We really need the extra income right now and it is a huge blessing that I am able to do it from home. Anyway the prayer went on and in the end I asked for help discerning the Spirit and being a better listener that I might feel the promptings and hear the still small voice so that I could be a better mother. I said Amen and my phone rang. Somehow I knew it was something. I said hello and my good neighbor was on the other end informing me that my oldest child had climbed out the window upstairs and onto the roof and that he was about to do it again. I said WHAT??!!!! and bolted up the stairs as fast as I could just in time to see Gavin sticking his legs out the window. I screamed and ran and grabbed him. I was shaking and starting crying so hard. I was TERRIFIED!! I couldn't believe he didn't' understand the danger he was in. The roof on that part of the house is VERY steep and only 2.5 feet out from the window. I am amazed he didn't fall the first time he got on the roof. He said he laid down and held on. I was sick to my stomach. He had kicked the screen out and it was just a scary sight.
I just felt so thankful that my neighbor had at that moment looked at that small part of my house and saw Gavin and called me. Just a tender mercy how the Lord works through other people. I will be forever grateful.