"Mother's Day" Gift

A few blogs back, and a few months back, I mentioned that Luke had gotten potty trained. That was not entirely true. He was pee trained, but not the other. It was a really sore subject for me. He has always had constipation issue's and if I happened to fail to give him his medicine, then it was a terrible ordeal. He would hold it and cry and sweat...oh, horrible to watch. Several times Neil and I had to pin him down and give him an a stool softener. Don't mean to gross you out but, I wanted to convey how hard it has been on all of us. Well, yesterday I got the best Mother's Day present I could have asked for.....Neil and I were debating about whether we really wanted to go to church. We were both tired and it seemed we were running behind from the time we got up. The thought that runs through my head every time we are thinking of skipping out, ran through again, "God blesses obedience". Part of being obedient is attending church for one short hour per week. We decided to go knowing that we would not only be blessed but, that the hardest part would be over soon.... that is simply getting there! Once there I am always glad we came. We did our normal routine of dropping the boys off at Sunday school and nursery. Jack didn't cry this week for long (that was nice I thought) and Luke went right into his class and immediately starting talking to Miss Donna (his teacher). Wow, this Sunday really is starting out well I thought, blessings already. Church was great as always, a wonderful lesson on the Proverbs 31 women. After the service we headed down to get the boys. As we approached Luke's class Miss Donna was waiting, she told us in a very nonchalant way, that Luke had pooped in the potty 3 times. "WHAT?" I said. Did I hear her right. You mean to tell me after struggling, begging, bribing this child to poop on the potty all it took was a Sunday school teacher to tell Luke that they did not have any diapers and that he would have to use the big potty if he had to go? Boy, did God bless my attendance this week I thought!!! We don't always get to see the blessings of our obedience immediately. But there are those wonderful occasions when he makes them clear as day!