Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
When Eleanor Sass was a child, she was hospitalized for appendicitis. Her roommate was a young girl named Mollie, who was injured when an automobile hit the bicycle she was riding. Mollie's legs had been badly broken and though the doctors performed several surgeries, Mollie faced a strong possibility that she would never walk again. She became depressed, uncooperative, and cried a great deal. She only seemed to perk up when the morning mail arrived. Most of her gifts were books, games, stuffed animals--all appropriate gifts for a bedridden child.
Then on day a different sort of gift came, this one from an aunt far away. When Mollie tore open the package, she found a pair of shiny, black-patent-leather shoes. The nurses in the room mumbled something about "peopl who don't use their heads", but Mollie didn't seem to hear them. She was too busy putting her hands in the shoes and "walking" them up and down her blanket. From that day, her attitude changed. She began cooperating with the nursing staff and soon, she was in therapy. One day Elenor heard that her friend had left the hospital..and the best news of all, she had walked out, wearing her shiny new shoes!
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials. James 1:2
(taken from God's Little Devotional Book for Moms)
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